a
Il Medioevo di Michael Curtiz - L'Inghilterra dei Tudor: Elisabetta I

Academy Award (Oscar): 5 nominations: Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography (Color), Best Art Direction and Set Decoration, Best Sound, Best Score

Il conte di Essex

(The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex)

1939, regia di Michael Curtiz

Scheda: Nazione: USA - Produzione: Warner Bros. - Distribuzione: Warner Bros. - Soggetto: dalla commedia Elizabeth the Queen di Maxwell Anderson - Sceneggiatura: Norman Reilly Raine, Eneas MacKenzie - Fotografia: Sol Polito - Montaggio: Owen Marks - Art Direction: Anton Grot - Costumi: Orry-Kelly - Musiche: Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Effetti speciali: Byron Haskin, Hans F. Koenekamp - Formato: Technicolor - Durata: 106'.

Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, Vincent Price, Henry Stephenson, Henry Daniell, James Stephenson, Nanette Fabray, Ralph Forbes, Robert Warwick, Leo G. Carroll.

Trama e commenti: internetbookshop.it - factotus.it: «Un brillante dramma storico sul conflitto tra passione e potere. Bette Davis e Errol Flynn resero pubbliche, in maniera affascinante, le vite della non più giovane regina Elisabetta e dell’affascinante conte di Essex, illuminando con le loro presenze questo sontuoso racconto dell’amore sfortunato di due protagonisti della storia inglese. Per quanto imbruttita - occhi e attaccatura dei capelli rasati, faccia truccata con fondotinta bianco e gessoso - la vincitrice di due premi Oscar, Bette Davis, trasuda tanta intelligenza, energia e ardore da rendere assolutamente credibile la sua storia d’amore con il ben più giovane Essex (un Flynn all’apice della sua bellezza e prestanza fisica). ... Il conte di Essex, che vanta ben cinque nomination all’Oscar, si concede qualche libertà nella ricostruzione storica, ma nessuna nell’impatto drammatico».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - allmovie.com - entertainment.msn.com - nytimes.com - san.beck.org - rottentomatoes.com - moviemeter.nl - turnerclassicmovies: «...this historical drama depicts the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) and the roguish and willful Robert Devereaux (Errol Flynn), Earl of Essex, which is complicated by the intrigues of the English court. Essex's ambitions potentially threaten the throne, and the Queen is ultimately forced to choose between Essex and England. Though promoted as a historical romance, there was little love between Bette Davis and Errol Flynn on the set of the film. Reportedly, Davis was jealous of Flynn because he was the highest paid star at Warners at the time yet she was the one who gave the studio prestige through her Oscar nominated performances. She also had requested and been denied Laurence Olivier for the role of Essex yet she would later state that during her scenes with Flynn, she would pretend she was acting with Olivier. ... The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is undoubtedly one of the most stunningly designed Technicolor films produced by Warner Brothers». 

Approfondimenti: Movie Review

su

Home Storiamedievale

Cinema e Medioevo-Indice

Indice film