Queen Elizabeth is running this show. The men in her court should be thinking about how to add to the glory of the Elizabethan Age and how to foil those pesky Spanish who got far too much influence in England when her older sister Mary was on the throne after their father Henry VIII was succeeded by their sickly half brother. Elizabeth thinks Michael Ingolby can do great things. Michael is mostly thinking about one of Elizabeth’s ladies in waiting, Cynthia. Soon his mind is on survival when Elizabeth sends him on a voyage to Spain.

Adventure | History | Romance | War

Flora Robson …. Queen Elizabeth I of England
Raymond Massey …. King Philip II of Spain
Leslie Banks …. ‘Robin’, the Earl of Leicester
Laurence Olivier …. Michael Ingolby
Vivien Leigh …. Cynthia
Morton Selten …. Lord Burleigh
Tamara Desni …. Elena
Lyn Harding …. Sir Richard Ingolby
George Thirlwell …. Mr. Lawrence Gregory
Henry Oscar …. Spanish Ambassador
Robert Rendel …. Don Miguel (as Robert Rendell)
Robert Newton …. Don Pedro
Donald Calthrop …. Don Escobal
Charles Carson …. Adm. Valdez
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Evelyn Ankers …. Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
Noel Brophy …. Irishman (uncredited)
Graham Cheswright …. Mr. Joseph Maddison (uncredited)
Francis De Wolff …. Sir James Tarleton (uncredited)
Howard Douglas …. Lord Amberley (uncredited)
Pam Downing …. Courtier (uncredited)
Franklin Dyall …. (uncredited)
A. Corney Grain …. Hatton (uncredited)
Laurence Hanray …. French Ambassador (uncredited)
Herbert Lomas …. (uncredited)
Cecil Mainwaring …. Lord Illingworth (uncredited)

James Mason …. Hillary Vane (uncredited)
Roy Russell …. Sir Humphrey Cooper (uncredited)
Norma Varden …. Elena’s Governess (uncredited)