January 12 movie: Seven Seas to Calais. Oh lordie, I'm behind on the movie list. This was Rod Taylor starring as Sir Francis Drake. And I must say, Rod Taylor was the most unconvincing Drake imaginable. He had the exact same hair as in The Glass Bottom Boat, except they added a little goatee. The movie follows Drake to the new world and against the Spanish Armada. Elizabeth in this movie wasn't as memorable as Bette Davis, but she wasn't bad. The most interesting story was Drake's sidekick, whose stupid French girlfriend gets stupidly mixed up in the Babington plot against Elizabeth. The girlfriend carries messages to Mary Stuart; in real life the messages were smuggled inside a beer barrell! Not very flattering to the girlfriend.
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