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MPAA Rating
NR
Running Time
2 hours, 3 minutes
Country USA
Studio Pandro S. Berman, RKO Pictures
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Other Titles
• Mary of Scotland
• Maria Stuart (1937)
• Mary, Queen of Scotland (1936)
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Genre: Drama, Biography, True Story, Tear Jerker, Political, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Religion, Escape, Murder, Period Piece
Tagline: One of the greatest love stories of all time... brought to the screen in throbbing glory by a wonderful cast of stars!
Plot: Katharine Hepburn stars as the titular Scottish regent whose return to her native land from France in the company of secretary David Rizzio (John Carradine) alarms Queen Elizabeth I (Florence Eldridge), the latter keenly aware of her cousin's ambitions for the British throne. Yet Mary must first deal with the Scottish nobility, led by her half brother, the earl of Moray (Ian Keith), who challenges her Catholic faith and unmarried status. The Protestant earl of Bothwell (Fredric March), smitten with Mary, helps her win over the nobility and assume the throne of Scotland. Despite her love for Bothwell, she refuses to marry him, instead wedding the fickle Lord Darnley (Douglas Walton) since he is the heir to Elizabeth's throne. The Virgin Queen retaliates by plotting with Moray to end Mary's reign. Despite Katharine Hepburn's preference for George Cukor, producer Pandro Berman chose Ford to direct this adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's apocryphal blank-verse drama. Hepburn responds with a galvanic performance, and Ford's influence, most noticeable in the imaginatively photographed interiors, lends dramatic resonance to MARY OF SCOTLAND's enjoyable blend of myth, history, and inspired pageantry.
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John Ford
The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man |
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The Best Years of Our Lives, Inherit the Wind, Seven Days in May | | Douglas Walton
Bride of Frankenstein, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Picture of Dorian Gray | John Carradine
The Ten Commandments, The Grapes of Wrath, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | | Gavin Muir
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