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Drake of England Reviews

  • 1935
  • 1 hr 36 mins
  • Drama
  • NR
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Britain's great 16th-century naval hero and his defeat of the Spanish Armada. Sir Francis Drake: Matheson Lang. Queen Elizabeth: Athene Seyler. Elizabeth: Jane Baxter. Thomas: John Wolfit. John: Henry Mollison. Moone: George Merritt. Lord Burghley: Ben Webster. Mother Moone: Amy Veness. Directed by Arthur Woods.

An enjoyable swashbuckler about Sir Francis Drake, the first English circumnavigator of the globe, and the sinking of the Spanish Armada by his small British fleet in 1588. A romantic subplot deals with the secret marriage of Lang, who plays Drake, and one of Queen Elizabeth's ladies-in-waiting (Baxter).