1971
Director: Charles Jarrott
Writing credits: John Hale
Produced by: Hal B. Wallis
Music: John Barry
Cinematography: Christopher Challis
In this historical drama, Mary must battle Queen Elizabeth I, her brother James, the Scottish Lords, the Scottish protestants, her husband and herself to secure the crown for her son and heir, the future James I of England.Redgrave does a spirited job in the title role as the headstrong and romantic queen who came to an unfortunate end. Mary is raised in France by her mother's Catholic family, from whom she inherits the Scottish title after her mother's death. She claims the throne much to the dismay of her Protestant half-brother James Stuart (McGoohan) and England's equally Protestant Queen Elizabeth (Jackson), who does not want her own Catholic subjects to get any ideas. Mary makes two unfortunate marriages and winds up being betrayed, eventually forcing Elizabeth to eliminate her dangerous cousin.
Cast List:
| Vanessa Redgrave | .... | Mary Stuart of Scotland |
| Glenda Jackson | .... | Queen Elizabeth I |
| Patrick McGoohan | .... | James Stuart, Mary's Brother |
| Timothy Dalton | .... | Lord Henry Darnley |
| Nigel Davenport | .... | James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell |
| Trevor Howard | .... | Sir William Cecil |
| Daniel Massey | .... | Robert Dudley, Elizabeth's Horsemaster |
| Ian Holm | .... | David Riccio |
| Andrew Keir | .... | Ruthven |
| Tom Fleming | .... | Father Ballard, Mary's Confessor |
| Katherine Kath | .... | Catherine de Medici |
| Beth Harris | .... | Mary Seton, Mary's Lady in Waiting |
| Frances White | .... | Mary Fleming |
| Bruce Purchase | .... | Morton |
| Brian Coburn | .... | Huntly |
| Vernon Dobtcheff | .... | Duc François de Guise |
| Raf De La Torre | .... | Cardinal de Guise |
| Richard Warner | .... | Walsingham |
| Maria Aitken | .... | Lady Jean Bothwell |
| Jeremy Bulloch | .... | Andrew, Bothwell's Henchman |
| Robert James | .... | John Knox |
| Richard Denning | .... | Francis II, King of France |
