The private lives of Elizabeth and Essex [videorecording] / Jack L. Warner in charge of production ; screen play by Norman Reilly Raine and Aeneas MacKenzie ; directed by Michael Curtiz.
Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, Vincent Price, Henry Stephenson. Originally released as a motion picture in 1939. Based on the stage play, Elizabeth the queen / by Maxwell Anderson. Special features: Warner night at the movies 1939, including newsreel, musical short The royal rodeo, cartoon Old Glory, theatrical trailers; featurette Elizabeth and Essex: battle royale. Bonus material not rated or closed-captioned.
Summary:
This period drama sets the tumultuous on-again, off-again affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the second Earl of Essex against Essex's powerful ambition to assume the throne of England.
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