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
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
Unknown
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
Crew
Gordon Flemyng
Director
Hugh Leonard
Writer
Anne V. Coates
Editor
Oswald Morris
Director of Photography
Jules Buck
Producer
John Bryan
Production Design
Maude Spector
Casting
Margaret Furse
Costume Design
A.G. Scott
Hair Department Head
Bill Lodge
Makeup Supervisor
Dimitri Tiomkin
Original Music Composer
Pamela Cornell
Set Dresser
Laurie Ridley
Still Photographer
Phyllis Crocker
Continuity
George Bernard Shaw
Theatre Play
William Hutchinson
Art Direction
