Directed by Alan Burke Country Australia Director Alan Burke Adapted from Victoria Regina | Distributed by ABC Language English Running time 1 hour | |
Based on the play Victoria Regina by Laurence Housman Release date 21 March 1963 (Melbourne)
27 March 1963 (Sydney) | ||
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.
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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.
Cast
Reception
Sydney Morning Herald gave it 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".
References
The Young Victoria (1963 film) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA