Tudor Rose

The film tells the short life of Lady Jane Grey. Jane is a close relative of Henry the Eighth. The throne falls vacant when King Edward the Sixth dies. Manoeuvring inside the court puts Jane on it. She is forced into a marriage she did not choose. She resists that marriage. Her reign lasts nine days. Then she is removed from the throne. A sentence of death follows. The young queen is beheaded. The film builds the events through Jane’s eyes. The games of the court run on in the background. Robert Stevenson wrote the script while recovering in hospital. That is how he came to direct it as well. Nova Pilbeam and Cedric Hardwicke appear in the eighty minute film, a British production Robert Stevenson finished in 1936.