Great Catherine (1968)
November 29, 1968
Comedy
1h 39m
By day she was Catherine the Queen. By night she was Catherine the Great.
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Gordon Flemyng
- Capt. Charles Edstaston Peter O'Toole
- Potemkin Zero Mostel
- Catherine Jeanne Moreau
- The British Ambassador Jack Hawkins
- Sergeant Akim Tamiroff
- Dowager Lady Gorse Marie Lohr
- Princess Dashkoff Marie Kean
- Naryshkin Kenneth Griffith
Recommendations
Keywords
- queen
- st. petersburg, russia
- slapstick comedy
- empress
- royalty
- aristocrat
- nobility
- englishman abroad
- catherine the great
- czarina / tsarina / tzarina
- russian dancers