Great Catherine (1968)
1h 39m
Running Time
November 29, 1968Release Date
Great Catherine (1968)
1h 39m
Running Time
November 29, 1968Release Date
Network & Production Companies
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
Jack Hawkins
The British Ambassador
Akim Tamiroff
Sergeant
Marie Lohr
Dowager Lady Gorse
Marie Kean
Princess Dashkoff
Kenneth Griffith
Naryshkin
Angela Scoular
Claire
Kate O'Mara
Varinka
Gerald Lawson
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
Catherine Lancaster
Sophia
Alfred Ravel
Glazier
Gordon Rollings
Glazier
Gordon Flemyng
Director
Bill Lodge
Makeup Supervisor
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
queen
slapstick
royalty
aristocrat
nobility
st. petersburg russia
empress
englishman abroad
catherine the great
czarina / tsarina / tzarina
russian dancers
Wiki.
Great Catherine is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Gordon Flemyng and starring Peter O'Toole, Zero Mostel, Jeanne Moreau and Jack Hawkins. It was written by Hugh Leonard based on the 1913 one act play Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores by George Bernard Shaw, loosely based on the story of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams and his time spent as an envoy at the Russian court.
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