Project Detail

Monarch

Name: Monarch
Director: John Walsh
Genre: Action, Horror, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Released: 2000
Duration: 89 mins

Synopsis

King Henry VIII reigned for 38 years. Young and handsome, his Court was the most colourful and extravagant in Europe. Yet this glamorous exterior partly disguised his unpredictable and savagely ruthless nature. His obsession to father a legitimate male heir led him through six marriages, to make himself Supreme Head of the English Church and to cut down those who stood in his way.
'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.

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Details

Year: 2000
Type of project: Features
Running time: 89 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: 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

Genre

Action Horror Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Walsh Bros Limited

29 Trafalgar Grove
Greenwich
London
SE10 9TB

Sales Company

3DD Productions

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