Year: 1945
Genre:
Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 6,8 (NEVAZUT)
Country: USA
Language:
Director: Otto Preminger
Writer: Edwin Justus Mayer, Bruno Frank
Composer: Alfred Newman
Producer: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Vincent Price, Mischa Auer, Sig Ruman, Vladimir Sokoloff, Mikhail Rasumny, Paul Baratoff, Eugene Beday, Egon Brecher, Renee Carson, Harry Carter, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Victor De Linsky, Donald Douglas, Nestor Eristoff, Fred Essler, Sandra Foloway, Arno Frey, Eva Gabor, Mario Gang, George Glebeff, Wilton Graff
Description: In 18th century Russia,a naive and idealistic lieutenant,Alexei Chernoff, deserts his unit and rushes to the Imperial Palace to warn Empress Catherine the Great of great dangers.Lieutenant Chernoff's fiancée,Countess Anna,is one of the ladies-in-waiting of the Empress.Upon forcing his way into the palace, lieutenant Chernoff meets Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch who promises to convey Chernoff's warning to the Empress but Chernoff wants to meet the Empress in person.His fiancée is also surprised to see Chernoff inside the palace.When Chernoff finally meets the Empress,he's mesmerized by her personality and swears to give his life to protect her.Catherine is impressed by his sense of sacrifice,innocence,sincerity,loyalty and also by his good looks.Infatuated with him,she makes him her boy-toy,to Anna's dismay.Overnight,Chernoff is appointed Chief of the Imperial Guard and his rank is raised to captain,to major,to colonel,according to Empress Catherine's romantic mood.
Comments: Ernst Lubitsch was the original director for A Royal Scandal, but illness forced him to bow out; his replacement was Otto Preminger, who did his utmost to retain the "Lubitsch touch." Based on a play by Lajos Biro and Melchior Lengyel, the film dwells upon a fictional incident in the life of Russia's Catherine the Great, here played with blue-blooded bawdiness by Tallulah Bankhead. Catherine falls in love with a handsome young army officer (William Eythe), who turns out to be an insurrectionist planning her downfall. At the last moment, Catherine relents, allowing the officer to escape with his true love, lady-in-waiting Anne Baxter. A bit too cute for its own good, Royal Scandal has some choice moments: Most notable are Tallulah Bankhead's pained reaction upon being hailed as "The Mother of All Russias," and supporting actor Grady Sutton's southern-accented reference to the "U-ral Mountains". — Hal Erickson
Duration: 94 minutes (at 25 frames per second)
File path: H:\_Filmovi bez prevoda\A Royal Scandal (1945) [Dual Audio Spa-Eng]\A Royal Scandal (1945) [Dual Audio Spa-Eng].avi
Filesize: 930 MB
Video: XviD - resolution: 556x402
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Subtitles: None