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...this reviewer's memory serves him, the film follows its historical motif with reasonable fidelity, although, of course, the emphasis is placed upon the ill-starred Lady Jane Grey and Lord Warwick rather than upon other equally important figures of the time. The director's treatment is thoroughly sympathetic and, although the finale is a foregone conclusion, the movement of Lady Jane upon the chessboard of English politics is one which greatly concerns the spectator...
...measurable success, the difficult task of reanimating scenes from the past. Nova Pilbeam, the new GB star who plays the part of Lady Jane, may not be a finished actress, but she has a quaint, old-fashioned charm which seems eminently suitable. Cordie Hardwicke, as the ambitious, cold-blooded Warwick, makes an evil geni of convincing unamiability. The supporting cast is of high calibre, thus insuring against any let-down in the minor, transitional scenes...
...general merit to its predecessor, that there seems no reason why the story cannot keep on chronologically up to and including Edward VIII. The royal panorama starts with Henry VIII (Frank Cellier) on his deathbed, cursing his courtiers and appointing his successor. Most formidable source of royal acrimony is Warwick (Cedric Hardwicke), "a man without conscience and without fear," who becomes the power behind the new throne. He does this by setting his rivals at sword's point until they have obliged him by eliminating each other. Thereupon he marries Lady Jane Grey (Nova Pilbeam...
Thomas H. Quinn '36, of West Warwick, R. I., is winner of the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize awarded annually by the deans of Harvard College and the Harvard Law School to an outstanding Senior in Harvard College proposing to enter, the Harvard Law School...
...somewhat stylized. The supporting cast is so uniformly excellent as to defy any graduation of honors. Maurice Evans portrays the incapable weakling Dauphin with a skill that renders the character quite lovable. John Emery has taken over Brian Aherne's part as the swaggering very English Earl of Warwick and does it quite as well as did the estimable Mr. Aherne. Eduardo Ciannelli as the Bishop of Beauvais, Charles Waldron as the senior French cleric, and George Courloris as the irascible aide to Warwick all turn in admirable performances...