The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
Trevor Howard
Benjamin Disraeli
Greer Garson
Mary Anne Disraeli
Eric Berry
Sir Robert Peel
Norman Barrs
Speaker of the House
Denholm Elliott
Montague Corry
Frederick Worlock
Lord Derby
Peter von Zerneck
Prince Bismarck
Hugh Franklin
Dr. Jenner
Chris Gampel
General Peel (as C.M. Gampel)
The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
Trevor Howard does rather well here to condense thirty-odd years of the political life of Benjamin Disraeli into seventy-five minutes. A principled idealist of the Jewish faith, he was determined to attain the office of Prime Minister to the initially quite hostile Queen Victoria (Kate Reid) and to take his nation to the pinnacle of the world order. His only other love being his wife Mary-Anne (a generous contribution from Greer Garson), a devoted, loving but rather poorly woman. This drama illustrates in the briefest of fashions just how this man managed too attain the highest office, and of the price he had to pay along the way. The production is well supported by the costume and set departments, and the story engages well, albeit superficially, with the politics of the time. The writing did annoy me after a while, though. I could have been doing with much less England/English and more Britain/British - a very lazy trait amongst English writers who are apt to forget that the UK is more than just their bit. Otherwise, it serves a useful purpose in providing an introduction that, though not as charmingly told as the George Arliss version from 1929, is informative and encouraging of more reading about this curious and quite visionary man who played the game adeptly and cleverly.
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