The Emperor's Candlesticks

Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Cast

William Powell

as Baron Stephan Wolensky

Luise Rainer

as Countess Olga Mironova

Robert Young

as Grand Duke Peter

Maureen O'Sullivan

as Maria Orlich

Frank Morgan

as Colonel Baron Suroff

Henry Stephenson

as Prince Johann

Bernadene Hayes

as Mitzi Reisenbach

Donald Kirke

as Anton, the Thief

Douglass Dumbrille

as Mr. Korum, a Conspirator

Charles Waldron

as Dr. Malchor, a Conspirator

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Based on the Baroness Orczy tale of Russian Imperial espionage, this is actually quite a fun, if insubstantial, historical drama. It all centres around attempts to free a Polish dissident from prison. At the time, Poland was a vassal of the Czar, and so a group of influential Poles coerce the Grand ...

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