Sixty Glorious Years

{{Infobox film

| name = Sixty Glorious Years

| image = Sixty Glorious Years FilmPoster.jpeg

| caption = A poster with the film's US title: Queen of Destiny

| producer = Herbert Wilcox

| writer = Charles de Grandcourt (writer)
Miles Malleson (writer)
Sir Robert Vansittart (dialogue)
Sir Robert Vansittart (scenario)

| narrator =

| starring = See below

| music = Anthony Collins

| cinematography = Freddie Young, William V. Skall

| editing = Jill Irving

| studio = Imperator Film Productions

| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1938|10|14|UK|df=y}}

| runtime = 95 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget =£211,212{{cite magazine|title=‘The highest salary ever paid to a human being’: Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England |last=Chapman|first= Llewella|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|magazine=Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10|volume=19|number=4|page=470-494 at 482}}

| gross = $981,000{{cite magazine|title=‘The highest salary ever paid to a human being’: Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England |last=Chapman|first= Llewella|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|magazine=Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10|volume=19|number=4|page=470-494 at 490}}

}}

Sixty Glorious Years is a 1938 British colour film directed by Herbert Wilcox.{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b61a639|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915154608/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b61a639|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 September 2016|title=Sixty Glorious Years (1938)}} The film is a sequel to the 1937 film Victoria the Great.{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/h8dg6/sixty-glorious-years|title=Sixty Glorious Years – Film from RadioTimes}}

The film is also known as Queen of Destiny in the US.{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=&Movie=8602|title=Abbreviated View of Movie Page}}

Cast

Anna Neagle as Queen Victoria
Anton Walbrook as Prince Albert
C. Aubrey Smith as the Duke of Wellington
Walter Rilla as Prince Ernest
Greta Schröder as Baroness Lehzen
Charles Carson as Sir Robert Peel
Felix Aylmer as Lord Palmerston
Lewis Casson as Lord John Russell
Pamela Standish as the Princess Royal
Gordon McLeod as John Brown
Henry Hallett as Joseph Chamberlain
Wyndham Goldie as Arthur Balfour
Malcolm Keen as William Ewart Gladstone
Frederick Leister as H. H. Asquith
Derrick De Marney as Benjamin Disraeli
Joyce Bland as Florence Nightingale
Frank Cellier as Lord Derby
Harvey Braban as Lord Salisbury
Aubrey Dexter as the Prince of Wales
Robert Eddison as Lanternist Professor
Stuart Robertson as George Edward Anson
Olaf Olsen as the Crown Prince of Prussia
Marie Wright as Maggie
Laidman Browne as Gen. Gordon

Critical reception

The Radio Times gave the film 3 out of five stars, calling it "old-fashioned, four-square, and very nice"; and

TV Guide also gave the same rating, calling the film "an unnecessary, but worthwhile, sequel to the epic screen biography Victoria the Great (1937)... As was the case in Victoria the Great, Wilcox's production values are superlative, with the sets and costumes accurate reproductions of the actual items which are housed at the British Museum. The American public was so interested in both the Queen Victoria films that RKO and Wilcox formed a contract that ensured distribution of British films in the U.S. and an exchange of American and British talent for various productions. This led to husband and wife Wilcox and Neagle's next project, Nurse Edith Cavell (1939), which was produced in Hollywood."{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/movies/sixty-glorious-years/review/117946/|title=Sixty Glorious Years}}