United Artists
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Knight Without Armour
The woman of flame -- the man of steel -- together !
In the last days of Czarist Russia, Russian-speaking Briton A.J. Fothergill is enlisted by his government to go undercover as Bolshevik radical Peter Ouranoff in an attempt to gain access to the revolutionaries' inner circle. Tasked with accompanying lovely aristocrat Alexandra Vladinoff from Moscow to Petrograd to be tried for crimes against the proletariat, Peter attempts to spirit her out of the war-torn country.
- Original title
- Knight Without Armour
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB,US
- Budget
- $350,000
- Revenue
- —
CinemaSerf
Jun 20, 2022 · via TMDB
Now you've got to keep an eye on the plot in this little espionage/counter espionage thriller as Robert Donat is a Brit sent to spy on the Bolsheviks and gets caught up in all sorts of shenanigans that lands him in Siberia until 1917 when, amidst all the chaos he alights upon the beautiful "Countess" (Marlene Dietrich) and both have to try and get the hell out of a rapidly imploding Russia. The two stars gel quite well, once they start sharing scenes together and although the story follows a pretty well trodden path, the two , together with a few familiar faces from British cinema (John Clements, Irene Vanbrugh and a rather good, drunken, Miles Malleson) manage to keep this slightly over-long escape story going. Harry Stradling's photography re-creates well the coldness of the Russian climate (from Buckinghamshire!) and the eeriness and devastation of a messy, brutal revolution and Lajos Biró's adaptation of the novel keeps pretty much to the plot.
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Marlene Dietrich
Countess Alexandra Vladinoff
Robert Donat
Ainsley J. Fothergill / Peter Ouronov
Irene Vanbrugh
Duchess of Zorin
Herbert Lomas
General Gregor Vladinoff
Austin Trevor
Col. Adraxine
Basil Gill
Axelstein
David Tree
Alexis Maronin
John Clements
Poushkoff
Frederick Culley
Stanfield
Laurence Hanray
Forrester
Hay Petrie
Station Master
Miles Malleson
Drunken Red Commissar
Allan Jeayes
White General
Lyn Harding
Bargee
Raymond Huntley
White Officer
Jacques Feyder
Director
Francis D. Lyon
Editor
Alexander Korda
Producer
Miklós Rózsa
Original Music Composer
Frances Marion
Adaptation
Arthur Wimperis
Dialogue
James Hilton
Novel
Frances Marion
Writer
Lajos Biró
Writer
Ruusu ja kulkuri
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The Barber of Siberia
Morphine
Baby Assassins
Saving Shiloh
Blind Husbands
Silent Souls
The Russian Woodpecker
Zeppelin
Mars Needs Moms
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Regeneration
Agent Mr. Chan
Escape to the Sun
Priest of Love
The White Reindeer
The Last Command
The Courier
Peter Ibbetson
Strange Cargo
The Way Back
The Exception
Dishonored
Reds
Queen Christina
To Hell and Back
Flyboys
Shining Through
The Hunting Party
Supercross
Firebrand
The Legion
Mata Hari
The Tamarind Seed
The Saint
The Russia House
Jul 23, 1937
