Monarch
Synopsis
'Monarch' is part fact, part fiction, and unfolds around one night when the injured ruler arrives at a manor house closed for the season. Henry is without the power and control of his palace and is vulnerable from those around him, and from his own sanity.
Henry left England financially and morally bankrupt; his collection of enemies his only constant. Even today there is a question mark surrounding his burial and possible exhumation.
TP McKenna plays Henry; after starring alongside Richard Burton's Henry VIII in the epic 'Anne of a Thousand Days', 'Charge of the Light Brigade', 'Straw Dogs'; and with Jean Marsh ('Upstairs Downstairs', 'Willow' and 'Fatherland') playing an amalgamation of his ex-wives. 'Monarch' unfolds on one night in the year of Henry's death, 1547.
Details
- Year
- 2000
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 89 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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John Walsh 1st Feature
- Producer
- John Walsh
- Executive Producer
- David Walsh
- Editor
- John Walsh
- Screenwriter
- John Walsh
- Director of Photography
- Ray Andrew
- Production Designer
- Suzanne Barnes
- Sound
- Chris Pickhaver
- Composer
- Matthew Poulton
- Principal cast
- T.P. McKenna, Jean Marsh, James Coombes, Peter Sowerbutts, Peter Miles, Mark Montgomerie
- Film Image
- © Walsh Bros Limited
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Walsh Bros Limited
29 Trafalgar GroveGreenwich
London
SE10 9TB
Sales Company
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