The Prime Minister (1941)

Directors

Thorold Dickinson

Cast

Abraham Sofaer, Andrea Troubridge, Anthony Ireland, Barbara Everest, Diana Wynyard, Fay Compton, Frederick Leister, Glynis Johns, Gordon McLeod, Irene Browne, John Gielgud, Joss Ambler, Kynaston Reeves, Leslie Perrins, Lyn Harding, Margaret Johnston, Nicholas Hannen, Owen Nares, Pamela Standish, Stephen Murray, Vera Bogetti, Will Fyffe

The story

The film is not a remake of the 1929 film Disraeli, which depicted only one incident late in Disraeli's career. Instead, The Prime Minister is an episodic biography of Disraeli from his early career as a novelist through his political triumphs as an elder statesman. The film is almost a hagiography, depicting Disraeli as a lifelong social reformer and a Tory democrat dedicated to "England" and to "democracy"; the film ends with a scene that the American Film Institute describes as a crowd cheering Disraeli and Queen Victoria "for saving the country".

Genres

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