Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

Wonderful shots of our green and pleasant land. Plenty of drama. Two top actresses working hard to do justice to their momentous roles. And yet somehow it's a bore -- an antiseptic view of history.

Under Charles Jarrott’s direction, it’s essentially a tableau serie, but it whizzes by like a murkier Peyton Place.

It is not all that bad, in the sense that it is never less than quite respectable, reasonably literate, but it is certainly a long, dull plod.

A royal flush of a different sort can be found in this gripping period piece in which two queens try to sweep each other out of power.