Great Catherine
By day she was Catherine the Queen. By night she was Catherine the Great.
1968 | 99m | English
Popularity: 6 (history)
| Director: | Gordon Flemyng |
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| Writer: | Hugh Leonard |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 29, 1968 |
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| Director: | Gordon Flemyng |
| Writer: | Hugh Leonard |
| Genres: | Comedy |
| Keywords | queen, st. petersburg, russia, slapstick comedy, royalty, empress, aristocrat, nobility, englishman abroad, catherine the great, czarina / tsarina / tzarina |
| Production Companies | Keep Films, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 28, 2026 Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Hugh Leonard | Writer |
| Margaret Furse | Costume Design |
| William Hutchinson | Art Direction |
| Laurie Ridley | Still Photographer |
| Maude Spector | Casting |
| Pamela Cornell | Set Dresser |
| A.G. Scott | Hair Department Head |
| Phyllis Crocker | Continuity |
| Bill Lodge | Makeup Supervisor |
| Gordon Flemyng | Director |
| Anne V. Coates | Editor |
| George Bernard Shaw | Theatre Play |
| Dimitri Tiomkin | Original Music Composer |
| Oswald Morris | Director of Photography |
| John Bryan | Production Design |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Jules Buck | Producer |
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