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Product Detail

All the King's Men
All the King's Men
Stars Maggie Smith and David Troughton
Series: Masterpiece Theatre
Grade level: Grade 9+
Closed captioned: Yes
Described Video: No
120 min on 1 VHS
Home and Educational Use
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List $19.95
 

The true story of England's vanished regiment is revealed. It is one of the most compelling and curious legends of the First World War. Led by Captain Frank Beck (David Jason), a favorite agent of King George V (David Troughton, Madame Bovary), Sandringham Company was comprised entirely of servants, grooms and gardeners from the King's Norfolk Estate. On August 12, 1915 the unit marched into battle against the Turks in Gallipoli and simply vanished, never to be heard from again. Queen Alexandra, played by Dame Maggie Smith (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, A Room with a View), was the driving force behind the investigation into the real fate of the battalion. But despite her extensive inquires, no trace of the men was ever discovered. Now, All the King's Men brings the details of what really happened in 1915 to the screen for the first time. It tells the story of these amateur soldiers, the idyllic life and loves they left behind in the quintessential English country estate and the horrors of an ill-prepared campaign to which they were subjected.

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Item # WG888
ISBN # 1-578076-76-5
UPC # 783421 33 6537
2000

Reviews

"There is something especially moving about this film. A fine script and Masterpiece Theatre's trademark luminous acting (Maggie Smith plays Alexandra, the queen mother) give the story real sand. And the truth behind the tale gives it heart." -Christian Science Monitor

"Adapted by Alma Cullen from a novel by co-producer Nigel McCrery, All the King's Men is an elegy as much as it is a film. It mourns a paradise lost that's pastoral, a Crown benignly patriarchal, a yeomanry gung-ho loyal, a class system basically feudal, and an innocence impossibly rustic... there is honor in these two hours. And although the fashion nowadays is to beat up on the whole idea of utopia, they also remind us that we dream our perfect republics in both directions, left and right, in the always radiant future or the impossibly nostalgic past." -John Leonard, New York Magazine

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