Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

this 1927 theory (courtesy of Duncan MacKay) 

Amazing find - well done!

It's actually pretty impressive for its day - I liked the Roman marching kit in particular - and the enthusiasm of some of the participants is wonderful.

studios in Cricklewood..... obviously couldn't be bothered to go as far north as the real site.....

More importantly, it predates Webster's popularisation of the so-called 'cavalry dash theory', and his promotion of Mancetter. Without these ideas to distort the narrative and send the search off into the Midlands, the Chilterns and the Dunstable/Tring area must have seemed the obvious choice.

As they say in the film, 'Boadicea' was aiming to return home after sacking London and Suetonius Paulinus positioned his forces to intercept her. Which is what I've been saying for years as well...

I think that this may be the film that we discussed some time ago, although then it seemed that no copy had survived.

It seems so - here is our brief discussion.

However, looking through a little more of the Martha Vandrei book, it appears likely that the version now available on Youtube is a cut-down edit of the original film, which from the description in the book contained several other scenes - including Paulinus attacking the druids on Mona - and a whole new subplot involving one of Boadicea's daughters falling for a Roman soldier... !