George Bernard Shaw wrote this as a one-act play that opened in November of 1913. They waited 55 years to make it into a film and would have been well advised to wait another 55 years. What a mishmash! In the inept hands of director Flemyng, this is a flat-footed farce that was a waste of
Warner Bros. money and the audience's time. O'Toole is a dim-witted captain of the Light Dragoons. He and Hawkins, the British ambassador, want to have an audience with Moreau, queen of all the Russians. Mostel is the prince, protector of the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg; the place looks like
Tobacco Road, Soviet-style. Animals run along the marble floors while Mostel is happil...
Released:
1968
Rated:
G
Length:
98 mins