Drama of the rise of the young Benjamin Disraeli (John Gielgud) from novelist to Queen Victoria's prime minister. Mary Anne: Diana Wynyard. Queen Victoria: Fay Compton. Agitator: Will Fyffe. Lord Derby: Owen Nares. Gladstone: Stephen Murray. Princess Victoria: Pamela Standish. Lord Melbourne: Frederick Leister. Sir Robert: Nicholas Hannen. Thorold Dickinson directed.