The Young Victoria | |
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Based on | the play Victoria Regina by Laurence Housman |
Directed by | Alan Burke |
Starring |
Lola Brooks Ric Hutton |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Running time | 60 mins [3] |
Production company | ABC |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | 27 March 1963[1] [2] | (Sydney, Melbourne)
The Young Victoria is an Australian television film of 1963 which aired on ABC on 27 March 1963. Based on the play Victoria Regina, it is a 60-minute drama about the courtship and marriage of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert. It stars Lola Brooks as Victoria and Ric Hutton as Albert. [4] [5] [6]
The production was reduced to four vignettes. It was sponsored by the International ' Theatre Institute, the drama-wing of-UNESCO, to celebrate World Theatre day. [7] It was shown on the same day in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide to celebrate the day. [8]
The courtship of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Douglas Smith did the sets. [9]
The Sydney Morning Herald gave the film a mixed review, calling it "mildly entertaining and agreeably presented" but also "these excerpts did not succeed in amounting to a play... it was all rather like a musical comedy without the music". [10]
The Age gave it a mixed review. [11]
The Bulletin gave the production "three cheers". [12]
The Young Victoria | |
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Based on | the play Victoria Regina by Laurence Housman |
Directed by | Alan Burke |
Starring |
Lola Brooks Ric Hutton |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Running time | 60 mins [3] |
Production company | ABC |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | 27 March 1963[1] [2] | (Sydney, Melbourne)
The Young Victoria is an Australian television film of 1963 which aired on ABC on 27 March 1963. Based on the play Victoria Regina, it is a 60-minute drama about the courtship and marriage of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert. It stars Lola Brooks as Victoria and Ric Hutton as Albert. [4] [5] [6]
The production was reduced to four vignettes. It was sponsored by the International ' Theatre Institute, the drama-wing of-UNESCO, to celebrate World Theatre day. [7] It was shown on the same day in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide to celebrate the day. [8]
The courtship of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Douglas Smith did the sets. [9]
The Sydney Morning Herald gave the film a mixed review, calling it "mildly entertaining and agreeably presented" but also "these excerpts did not succeed in amounting to a play... it was all rather like a musical comedy without the music". [10]
The Age gave it a mixed review. [11]
The Bulletin gave the production "three cheers". [12]