Young Bess

This costume drama was based on the historical fiction of Margaret Irwin, which embellishes the facts of the early years of England's eventual Queen Elizabeth I. It's told in flashback style, starting with the horrible day when King Henry VIII (Charles Laughton) sends away the future queen, young ...more

Young Bess is a fairly enjoyable "historical" drama. As a typical Hollywood film, of course, historical merely means that it takes place in the past and concerns figures that were actually alive and of some importance. Like many other films of its kind, Bess is much less interested in getting historical facts right, and more concerned with producing a story that would involve the audience, especially if it also could fill the screen with impressive sets and costumes. Certainly, Walter Plunkett's ...more