A scene from Jean Negulesco’s The Mudlark, with Alec Guinness playing Benjamin Disraeli, Queen Victoria’s prime minister. The speech that he delivers before the House of Commons in this scene was actually written by Nunnally Johnson, the author of the film’s screenplay. It was shot in a single seven-minute take:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)