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Directed by: Trevor Nunn
Character: Lady Jane Grey
Co-Starring: Cary Elwes, John Wood, Michael Hordern & Jill Bennett
Genre: Biography, Drama, History & Romance
Film Length: 2h22min
Distributed by: Capital Equipment Leasing

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Synopsis:
The death of King Henry VIII of England throws his kingdom into chaos as his heir, Edward VI is not only under-age, but dying. Anticipating the young king's imminent death from consumption and anxious to keep England true to the Reformation by keeping the Catholic Mary from the throne, John Dudley, Lord President of the Council, second only to the king in power, marries his son Guilford to Lady Jane Grey and has the royal physician keep the young king alive — albeit in excruciating pain — long enough to get him to name Lady Jane his heir.

Jane is not happy with the proposed marriage, and must be forced into it through corporal punishment by her parents. At first Jane and Guilford decide to treat this purely as a marriage of convenience, but then they fall deeply in love. Jane is placed on the throne after Edward dies. She is troubled by the questionable legality of her accession; but, in consultation with Guilford, she turns the tables on John Dudley and the others who had thought to use her as a puppet.

After only nine days, however, Queen Jane is abandoned by her council precisely because of her reformist designs for the country. The council, then, goes over to Mary, who at first imprisons Jane and Guilford. After Jane's father, the Duke of Suffolk, raises a rebellion to restore her to the throne, presumably in concert with Thomas Wyatt's rebellion, Mary finally has Jane, Jane's father, and Guilford executed.

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Quotes:
- "I would die to free our people from the chains of bigotry and superstition"
- "It is my only pleasure, Dr. Feckinham"
- "You gave them all that money and they just threw it back at you?"
- "The soul takes flight to the world that is eternal... invisible"
- "Well for example the idea that a piece of bread can become the body of our savior, father"
- "He also said I am the vine, I am the door. Was he a vine, a door?"
- "No, it isn't. It's a shilling"

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