Great Catherine (1968)
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Mae West was never permitted to make a film version of her bawdy historical romp Catherine Was Great, yet this British adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Great Catherine made it to the screen. Where is the justice in this? Anyway, Jeanne Moreau braves it through the nearly unplayable role of Catherine, mother of All the Russias, while Peter O'Toole and Zero Mostel struggle manfully to breathe life into the proceedings. The plot has something to do with Prince Patiomkin's efforts to splice Catherine with Captain Edstaston, thus assuring that the queen's reign will be a happy one. The Captain would rather dally with Claire (Angela Scoular) and spends the rest of the running time escaping the queen's wrath. Throughout Great Catherine, Shavian wit is given short shrift in favor of 2-reeler slapstick. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Peter O'Toole - Capt. Charles Edstaston
- Jeanne Moreau - Catherine
- Akim Tamiroff - Sergeant
- Marie Lohr - Dowager Lady Gorse
- Angela Scoular - Claire
- Norma Foster - Oliver McGreevy
- Catherine Lancaster - Sophia
- Oliver Macgreevy - General Pskov
- Henry Woolf - Egrebyomka
- Rupert Holliday Evans
- Tom Clegg - Mongol
- Gordon Rollings - Glazier
- Declan Mulholland - Count Tokhtamysh
- Yuri Borienko
- Zero Mostel - Patiomkin
- Jack Hawkins - Sir George Gorse
- Kenneth Griffith - Naryshkin
- Marie Kean - Princess Dashkoff
- Kate O'Mara - Varinka
- Janet Kelly - Anna Schuvalova
- Sean Barrett - Andrei Strelkin
- Milton Reid - Henchman
- James Mellor - Col. Pugachov
- Alf Joint - Russian General
- Lea Seidl - Grand Duchess
- Dinny Powell
- Gerald Lawson
- Claire Gordon - Elizabeth Vokonska
- Director(s):
- Gordon Flemyng
- Writer(s):
- Hugh Leonard
- Producer(s):
- Jules Buck
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