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Fire Over England
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Fire Over England is a 1937 British Swashbuckler film produced by Alexander Korda's London Films, directed by William K. Howard, and starring Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson, Leslie Banks, Vivien Leigh, Tamara Desni, Robert Newton, and Raymond Massey, and nominally based on a novel by Historical Fiction author A.E.W. Mason; the score is by noted English composer Richard Addinsell of "Warsaw Concerto" fame. Produced at a time when the Jewish Korda was desperately trying to rouse Britain for the coming fight with Nazi Germany — a not entirely popular position in those war-weary times — Fire Over England used the "Black Legend" of Spanish aggression and Elizabeth I's glorious opposition to the invading Armada to reflect the need for a vigorous defence of England's liberties.The film begins with a title-scroll stating that Spain's King Philip II (Massey), who rules "by fear and force," is opposed only by one freedom loving little island led by a woman — Elizabeth the Queen (Robson). Michael Ingolby (Olivier), fighting with his Privateer father Richard against the Spanish, is allowed to escape when their ship is seized by the Spanish captain Don Miguel, his father's friend, though Sir Richard Ingolby is arrested by The Spanish Inquisition. Michael makes his way to Don Miguel's house, where he is nursed to health by Don Miguel's daughter, Elena (Desni) — who (though she is to be married) rapidly falls in love with him, though he is in love with Cynthia (Leigh), granddaughter of Lord Burleigh (Morton Selten). However, when Michael learns that his father has been executed, he turns on them and for England. There, Queen Elizabeth is playing diplomatic cat-and-mouse with the Spanish, but is torn between the cautious policy of Burleigh and the overtly aggressive one of the Earl of Leicester (Banks), who fears for her safety, as some of her own courtiers are plotting against her — among them, Mr. Hillary Vane (a young James Mason), drowned when Leicester attempts to arrest him. Elizabeth, Burleigh, and Leicester convince Michael, over Cynthia's objections, to return to Spain in place of Vane to learn the details of the plot.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Reportedly, this film was responsible for Vivien Leigh being cast as Scarlett O'Hara. | |
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As the Good Book Says...: Over the image of the sinking Armada, Elizabeth quotes an historical sermon by an English bishop, based on Exodus XV, 10: "Thou didst blow with Thy winds, and they were scattered." She later ends the film by reciting the General Thanksgiving from the Book of Common Prayer. | |
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Broken Aesop: What is meant as an in-universe example by Count Pedro: | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: As Don Pedro assures Michael, "You English fool — you'll be persuaded until you tell everything. We understand persuasion." | |
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