Great Catherine

Great Catherine (1968)

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.

Date of release
1968-11-29
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Gordon Flemyng

Casting

Interesting facts

Great Catherine is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Gordon Flemyng and starring Peter O'Toole, Zero Mostel, Jeanne Moreau and Jack Hawkins. It was written by Hugh Leonard based on the 1913 one act play Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores by George Bernard Shaw, loosely based on the story of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams and his time spent as an envoy at the Russian court.

Production

It was shot at Shepperton Studios near London with sets designed by the art directors John Bryan and William Hutchinson. The score was composed by Dimitri Tiomkin.

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