The Prime Minister

Benjamin Disraeli was surely one of the most iconoclastic and intriguing leaders of any major country in the world. That they managed to make him dull is a bewilderment. Gielgud doesn't come close to the Oscar-winning Arliss performance in the 1929 version. All of the famed episodes are here as we see Gielgud, a novelist, go into politics when helped along by Wynyard. They marry and he becomes Prime Minister in 1868, then again from 1874 through 1880. Germany, Austria, and Russia have entered into a cabal that threatens the security of England. The Queen, Compton, prevails upon Gielgud to stay on in his position and help beat that alliance, despite Gielgud's desire...