Great Catherine (1968)
1h 39m
Running Time
November 29, 1968Release Date
Great Catherine (1968)
1h 39m
Running Time
November 29, 1968Release Date
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Plot.
When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly condition. The severely intoxicated Prince Potemkin concludes that the handsome Edstaston would be a suitable lover for Catherine, and he coerces the bewildered visitor into her bedchamber. Edstaston manages to escape, but he is repeatedly recaptured and delivered to the mischievous Catherine.
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Cast & Crew.
Peter O'Toole
Capt. Charles Edstaston
Zero Mostel
Potemkin
Jeanne Moreau
Catherine
Akim Tamiroff
Sergeant
Jack Hawkins
The British Ambassador
Gordon Flemyng
Director
Marie Lohr
Dowager Lady Gorse
George Bernard Shaw
Writer
Marie Kean
Princess Dashkoff
Kenneth Griffith
Naryshkin
Hugh Leonard
Writer
Angela Scoular
Claire
Jules Buck
Producer
Dimitri Tiomkin
Composer
Kate O'Mara
Varinka
Oswald Morris
Cinematographer
Lea Seidl
Grand Duchess
Oliver MacGreevy
General Pskov
Norma Foster
Mongol
James Mellor
Colonel Pugachov
Claire Gordon
Elizabeth Vokonska
Declan Mulholland
Count Tokhtamysh
Janet Kelly
Anna Schuvalova
Henry Woolf
Egrebyomka
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Wiki.
Great Catherine is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Gordon Flemyng, based on a 1913 one act play by George Bernard Shaw, and starring Peter O'Toole, Zero Mostel, Jeanne Moreau and Jack Hawkins. Like the play, it is loosely based on the story of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams and his time spent as an envoy at the Russian court.
It was shot at Shepperton Studios near London with sets designed by the art directors John Bryan and William Hutchinson. The score was composed by Dimitri Tiomkin.