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Great Catherine (1968)

Great Catherine (1968)

Comedy

By day she was Catherine the Queen. By night she was Catherine the Great.

Release Date: 1968, November 29
Directors: Gordon Flemyng
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Keep Films, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Cast: James Mellor, Jack Hawkins, Peter O'Toole, Jeanne Moreau, Angela Scoular, Marie Kean, Gordon Rollings, Kenneth Griffith, Henry Woolf, Akim Tamiroff, Oliver MacGreevy, Declan Mulholland

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

slapstick comedy royalty aristocrat queen st. petersburg, russia nobility englishman abroad empress catherine the great czarina / tsarina / tzarina