---
title: 'Victoria the Great (1937)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Herbert Wilcox'
released: '1937-09-16'
runtime_minutes: 112
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/victoria-the-great-1937'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029734/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Victoria the Great (1937)

1937 · 112 min · Drama, History · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

Victoria the Great is a 1937 British historical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook and Walter Rilla. When Laurence Housman's play Victoria Regina was banned by the Lord Chamberlain, its subsequent Broadway success prompted King Edward VIII to commission producer Herbert Wilcox to turn it into a film, commemorating the centenary of Victoria's reign. The film biography of Queen Victoria concentrates initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861. It was released in the year of Victoria’s great-grandson King George VI's coronation, which was also the centennial of Victoria's own accession to the throne. The movie was so successful that a sequel appeared the following year, Sixty Glorious Years.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Herbert Wilcox](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-wilcox)
- **Screenplay:** [Miles Malleson](https://cinepixo.com/people/miles-malleson)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Anthony Collins](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-collins)
- **Director of Photography:** [William V. Skall](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-v-skall)
- **Editor:** [Jill Irving](https://cinepixo.com/people/jill-irving)

## Cast

- [Derrick De Marney](https://cinepixo.com/people/derrick-de-marney) as Benjamin Disraeli
- [Hugh Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugh-miller) as Benjamin Disraeli
- [Charles Carson](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-carson) as Robert Peel
- [Mary Morris](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-morris) as Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
- [Henry Hallett](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-hallett) as Joseph Chamberlain
- [Walter Rilla](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-rilla) as Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- [Gordon McLeod](https://cinepixo.com/people/gordon-mcleod) as John Brown
- [Anna Neagle](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-neagle) as Victoria
- [Anton Walbrook](https://cinepixo.com/people/anton-walbrook) as Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- [Arthur Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-young) as William Ewart Gladstone
- [C.V. France](https://cinepixo.com/people/c-v-france) as William Howley
- [Felix Aylmer](https://cinepixo.com/people/felix-aylmer) as Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
- [Greta Schröder](https://cinepixo.com/people/greta-schroder) as Louise Lehzen
- [Paul Leyssac](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-leyssac) as Christian Friedrich, Baron Stockmar
- [Clarence Blakiston](https://cinepixo.com/people/clarence-blakiston) as Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex

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