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Great Catherine (Original title)
Date: 1967 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Gordon Flemyng

Synopsis: Comedy about Catherine the Great of Russia and an Englishman representing all the English virtues of modesty, national pride, etiquette and an inability to understand anything which is not English.

Genres:
Comedy, Period drama

Subject:
18th century
Releases
Date: 1967not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 98 mins Length: 8838 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (27)
Production Company: Keep Films, Producer: Jules Buck, Production Manager: Ed Harper, Assistant Director: Peter Bolton, Continuity: Phyllis Crocker, Script: Hugh Leonard, Original play: George Bernard Shaw, Photography: Oswald Morris, Camera Operator: Brian West, Stills Photography: Laurie Ridley, Special Effects: Bowie Films, Editor: Anne V. Coates, Production Designer: John Bryan, Art Director: Bill Hutchinson, Set Decorator: Pamela Cornell, Scenic Artist: Ferdinand Bellan, Costume Designer: Margaret Furse, Costumes: Margaret Furse, Wardrobe: Ivy Baker, Wardrobe: Ron Beck, Make-up: Bill Lodge, Hair: A.G. Scott, Music composed and conducted: Dimitri Tiomkin, Choreography: Paddy Stone, Sound: Paddy Cunningham, Technical Adviser: Andrew Mollo
Cast (31)
Peter O'Toole (Captain Charles Edstaston), Jeanne Moreau (Catherine the Great), Zero Mostel (Prince Patiomkin), Jack Hawkins (Sir George Gorse), Akim Tamiroff (Sergeant), Marie Löhr (Dowager Lady Gorse), Marie Kean (Princess Dashkoff), Kenneth Griffith (Naryshkin), Angela Scoular (Claire), Kate O'Mara (Varinka), Oliver Macgreevy (General Pskov), Lea Seidl (Grand Duchess), James Mellor (Colonel Pugachov), Declan Mulholland (Count Tokhtamysh), Henry Woolf (Egrebyomka), Catherine Lancaster (Sophia), Janet Kelly (Anna Schuvalova), Gordon Rollings (1st Glazier), Alfred Ravel (2nd Glazier), Claire Gordon (Elizabeth Vokonska), Sean Barrett (Andrei Strelkin), Alf Joint (Russian General), Reuben Martin, Yuri Borienko, Rupert Evans, Milton Reid (Sergeant's Henchman), Dinny Powell, Tom Clegg (Patiomkin's Mongol), Gerald Lawson, Norma Foster, Darryl Read ([young Peter])