The Mudlark

The Mudlark is a 1950 film made in Britain by 20th Century Fox. It is a fictional account of how Queen Victoria was eventually brought out of her mourning for her dead husband, Prince Albert. It was directed by Jean Negulesco, written and produced by Nunnally Johnson and based on the 1949 novel of the same name by American artillery sergeant and newspaperman Theodore Bonnet 19081983. It starred Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness and Andrew Ray.

A young street urchin Andrew Ray, halfstarved and homeless, finds a cameo containing the likeness of Queen Victoria Irene Dunne. Not recognizing her, he is told that she is the mother of all England. Taking the remark literally, he journeys to Windsor Castle to see her.When he is caught by the palace guards, the boy is mistakenly thought to be part of an assassination plot against the Queen. Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli Alec Guinness realises that the boy is innocent and pleads for him in Parliament, delivering a speech that indirectly criticizes the Queen for withdrawing from public life. The Queen is infuriated by the speech, but she is genuinely moved upon meeting the boy for the first time, and once again enters public life. ........

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