The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
Katharine Hepburn
as Mary Stuart
Florence Eldridge
as Elizabeth Tudor
Fredric March
as Bothwell
Douglas Walton
as Darnley
John Carradine
as Rizzio
Robert Barrat
as Morton
Gavin Muir
as Leicester
Ian Keith
as Moray
Moroni Olsen
as John Knox
William Stack
as Ruthven
Ralph Forbes
as Randolph
Alan Mowbray
as Throckmorton