The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
Acting
Hepburn and Eldridge's staredown across a room—no shared scenes, pure tension.
Costume
Walter Plunkett's gowns: historically dubious, absolutely devastating.
Direction
Ford's shadowy candlelit interiors before his Western period.
Director
John Ford
Katharine Hepburn
Mary Stuart
Florence Eldridge
Elizabeth Tudor
Fredric March
Bothwell
Douglas Walton
Darnley
John Carradine
Rizzio
Robert Barrat
Morton
Gavin Muir
Leicester
Ian Keith
Moray
Moroni Olsen
John Knox
William Stack
Ruthven
Ralph Forbes
Randolph
Alan Mowbray
Throckmorton
Frieda Inescort
Mary Beaton
Donald Crisp
Huntly
David Torrence
Lindsay
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