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The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)

07/02/1937 Drama, History, Romance 1h 29m
52%
User
Score
6.5/10

Drama that will toy with your heart

Overview

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

George Fitzmaurice

Director

Harold Goldman

Writer

Top Billed Cast

William Powell

William Powell

Baron Stephan Wolensky

Luise Rainer

Luise Rainer

Countess Olga Mironova

Robert Young

Robert Young

Grand Duke Peter

Maureen O'Sullivan

Maureen O'Sullivan

Maria Orlich

Frank Morgan

Frank Morgan

Colonel Baron Suroff

Henry Stephenson

Henry Stephenson

Prince Johann

Bernadene Hayes

Bernadene Hayes

Mitzi Reisenbach

Donald Kirke

Donald Kirke

Anton, the Thief

Douglass Dumbrille

Douglass Dumbrille

Mr. Korum, a Conspirator

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on September 17, 2022

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 Duke "Peter" (Robert Young) to write to his father imploring his intervention. What's this got to do with candlesticks, you might think? Well these clever little ornate gadgets have secret compartments - easy enough to smuggle a letter in. When they are inadvertently moved, then sold-on a few times it falls to Polish agent "Wolensky" (William Powell) to stay one step ahead of his Czarist protagonist "Countess Mironova" (Luise Rainer) and recover them before their secret is discovered and heads s...

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