The Young Victoria | |
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Directed by | Alan Burke |
Based on | the play Victoria Regina by Laurence Housman |
Distributed by | ABC |
Release date | 21 March 1963 (Melbourne) 27 March 1963 (Sydney) |
Running time | 60 mins |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
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.[1]
Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[2]
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.[3][4]
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".[5]
The Bulletin gave the production "three cheers".[6]
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