Great Catherine (1968)

Comedy

Slapstick comedy based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. A stiff English officer, captain Charles Edstaston (Peter O'Toole), and his fiancée Claire arrive in St. Petersburg. Edstaston is brought to the imperial court to seek audience with the empress Catherine (Jeanne Moreau). He obtains an interview with her courtier, the drunken Potemkin (Zero Mostel), who ends up carrying him in his arms to the empress and dumping him into her royal bed. From this moment on, the hapless Edstaston endeavours to escape from the clutches of the sex-crazed empress and leave the city with his English fiancée.

Updated May 26 2020

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GB -

1968-12-06

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Keywords:

love triangle england queen russia slapstick royalty aristocrat nobility

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Runtime: 99 mins Rating: 5.0 Tag Line: By day she was Catherine the Queen. By night she was Catherine the Great.

Cast

Jack Hawkins

The British Ambassador

Angela Scoular

Claire

Peter O'Toole

Capt. Charles Edstaston

Jeanne Moreau

Catherine

Zero Mostel

Potemkin

Akim Tamiroff

Sergeant

Kate O'Mara

Varinka

Marie Kean

Princess Dashkoff

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Crew

Dimitri Tiomkin

Original Music Composer

Anne V. Coates

Editor

Oswald Morris

Director of Photography

Maude Spector

Casting

William Hutchinson

Art Direction

George Bernard Shaw

Theatre Play

Hugh Leonard

Writer

Margaret Furse

Costume Design

Dimitri Tiomkin

Original Music Composer

Anne V. Coates

Editor

Oswald Morris

Director of Photography

Maude Spector

Casting

William Hutchinson

Art Direction

George Bernard Shaw

Theatre Play

Hugh Leonard

Writer

Margaret Furse

Costume Design

Gordon Flemyng

Director

John Bryan

Production Design

Jules Buck

Producer

Phyllis Crocker

Continuity

Laurie Ridley

Still Photographer

Pamela Cornell

Set Dresser

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