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Right: Vincent Price as Charles II. with the late Laird Cregar (left), Nigel Bruce and Virginia Field in " Hudson's Bay." the romantic story of the found- ing of the Hudson’s Bay Trading Company in the seventeenth century. Below : Anna Neagle as Queen Victoria, and Anton Walbrook as the Prince Consort in “ Victoria the Great." Bottom of page : James I orders the torture of Guy Fawkes in' the Tower—a scene from an early silent British film. " Guy Fawkes." with Matheson Lang in the title role and Jerrold Robertshaw as James. In the American film version of the novel " Forever Amber " Charles II is impersonated by George Sanders. Another American film is The Exile, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Junior, with British Robert Coote as the exiled Charles Stuart, in this story of the monarch’s exile in France. The role of Charles II was taken by Vincent Price in Hudson’s Bay. In “ The Scarlet Pimpernel,” Baroness Orczy’s famous novel of a daring Englishman's adventures in the French Revolution, the role of the Prince of Wales was taken by Nigel Bruce. This film was a triumph for the late Leslie Howard in the title role. He led a band of Regency bloods who successfully rescued a number of French aristocrats from the guillotine during the revolution of rySg and smuggled them to safety in England. Way back in 1923 Matheson Lang portrayed the historical figure of Guy Fawkes in a British film of that title. When the gunpowder plot was discovered, James I, who was then on the EngUsh throne, ordered the torture of Guy Fawkes. James I in this film was taken by Jerrold Robertshaw. Shakespeare’s Henry the Fifth came superbly to the screen in 1945. It was magnificently acted, the battle scenes at Agincourt full of excitement and suspense, the love scenes between the English king and the French princess beautifully played. In The First Gentleman Cecil Parker has the role of the Prince Regent, afterwards George IV. The Prince Regent was played by Peter Graves in Mrs. Fitzherbert. The Sixty Glorious Years A ND last but not least, are the films that will keep in memory the glorious reign of Queen Victoria, which lasted sixty years.