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{{Infobox film
| name = Great Catherine
| image = "Great_Catherine"_(1968).jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Belgian theatrical poster
| director = [[Gordon Flemyng]]
| producer = [[Jules Buck]]
| based_on = {{based on|''[[Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores|Great Catherine]]''|[[George Bernard Shaw]]}}
| writer = [[Hugh Leonard]]
| narrator =
| starring = [[Peter O'Toole]]<br />[[Zero Mostel]]<br />[[Jeanne Moreau]]<br />[[Jack Hawkins]]
| music = [[Dimitri Tiomkin]]
| cinematography = [[Oswald Morris]]
| editing = [[Anne V. Coates]]
| studio = Keep Films
| distributor = [[Warner-Pathé Distributors]]
| released = {{Film date|1968|12|06|df=y}}
| runtime = 99 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
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'''''Great Catherine''''' is a 1968 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Gordon Flemyng]], based on a [[Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores|1913 one act play]] by [[George Bernard Shaw]], and starring [[Peter O'Toole]], [[Zero Mostel]], [[Jeanne Moreau]] and [[Jack Hawkins]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6ab7911e|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711200211/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6ab7911e|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-11|title=Great Catherine|work=BFI}}</ref> Like the play, it is loosely based on the story of [[Sir Charles Hanbury Williams]] and his time spent as an envoy at the Russian court.

It was shot at [[Shepperton Studios]] near [[London]] with sets designed by the [[art director]]s [[John Bryan (art director)|John Bryan]] and [[William Hutchinson (art director)|William Hutchinson]]. The score was composed by [[Dimitri Tiomkin]].

==Synopsis==
A British officer, Captain Charles Edstaston, is sent to the Russian court of [[Catherine the Great]] as an envoy, where he has to contend with the crafty machinations of her chief minister [[Grigory Potyomkin|Potemkin]].

==Cast==
* [[Peter O'Toole]] as Charles Edstaston
* [[Jeanne Moreau]] as [[Catherine the Great]]
* [[Zero Mostel]] as [[Potemkin]]
* [[Jack Hawkins]] as British Ambassador
* [[Akim Tamiroff]] as Sergeant
* [[Marie Lohr]] as Dowager Lady Gorse
* [[Kate O'Mara]] as Varinka
* [[Angela Scoular]] as Claire
* [[Oliver MacGreevy]] as General Pyskov
* James Mellor as Colonel Pugachov
* Lea Seidl as Grand Duchess
* [[Claire Gordon]] as Elizabeth Vokonska
* [[Declan Mulholland]] as Count Tokhtamysh
* Janet Kelly as Anna Schuvalova
* [[Henry Woolf]] as Egrebyomka

==Critical reception==
[[TV Guide]] wrote, "They waited 55 years to make it (Shaw's play) into a film and would have been well advised to wait another 55 years. What a mishmash!...Mostel, unless held in check, always overacts, and this is a prime example of a stage actor, accustomed to having to play "big" for the people in the last row, overdoing things for the close-up camera";<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/movies/great-catherine-125054/review/|title=Great Catherine|work=TVGuide.com}}</ref> whereas [[The New York Times]] wrote, "''GREAT CATHERINE'' has a great clown named Zero Mostel...the glorious hamming of the portly American makes the picture...Surely Mr. Mostel's antics would have won the playwright's approval...The story, Braced immeasurably by the Shavian lines, as arranged by the scenarist, Hugh Leonard, and stylishly piloted by the director, Gordon Flemyng, the picture is also beautiful in its lavish décor, costumes and color photography."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A01E1D9153DE134BC4850DFB7668382679EDE|title = Movie Reviews|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 29 December 2021}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0063034}}

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[[Category:Films directed by Gordon Flemyng]]
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[[Category:Films shot at Shepperton Studios]]
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