Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Home > All films > Films Drama > The Emperor's Candlesticks
The Emperor's Candlesticks is a american film of genre Drama directed by George Fitzmaurice released in USA on 2 july 1937 with Luise Rainer

The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)

The Emperor's Candlesticks
If you like this film, let us know!
Released in USA 2 july 1937
Length 1h29
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Spy,    Historical,    Romance
Themes Spy films
Rating64% 3.2439853.2439853.2439853.2439853.243985

The Emperor's Candlesticks is a 1937 film starring William Powell and Luise Rainer, based on the novel of the same name by Baroness Orczy. It was directed by George Fitzmaurice. The film is a story about spies from opposing sides who fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Synopsis

While visiting Vienna incognito, Russian Grand Duke Peter (Robert Young) is lured away from a masquerade ball by the beautiful Maria (Maureen O'Sullivan), only to find himself the prisoner of Polish nationalists. Peter is made to write a letter to his father, the Czar of Russia, offering to exchange him for Maria's father, who has been sentenced to be executed.

Actors

Luise Rainer

(Countess Olga Mironova)William Powell

(Baron Stephan Wolensky)Robert Young

(Grand Duke Peter)Maureen O'Sullivan

(Maria Orlich)Frank Morgan

(Colonel Baron Suroff)
And :
Henry Stephenson
Douglass Dumbrille
Charles Waldron
Donald Kirke
Trailer of The Emperor's Candlesticks

Bluray, DVD

Streaming / VOD

Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to The Emperor's Candlesticks

There are 392 films with the same actors, 57 films with the same director, 69496 with the same cinematographic genres (including 7 with exactly the same 4 genres than The Emperor's Candlesticks), 1126 films with the same themes, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked The Emperor's Candlesticks, you will probably like those similar films :
Mata Hari
Mata Hari (1931)
, 1h29
Directed by George Fitzmaurice
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Greta Garbo, Ramón Novarro, Lewis Stone, Lionel Barrymore, C. Henry Gordon, Karen Morley
Rating65% 3.296383.296383.296383.296383.29638
In 1917, France is embroiled in World War I. Dubois (C. Henry Gordon), head of the French spy bureau, offers to spare the life of a captured agent (an uncredited Mischa Auer) if he will reveal who he is protecting. Dubois suspects it is Mata Hari, a celebrated, wildly popular exotic dancer, but the prisoner chooses execution by firing squad.
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
, 1h38
Directed by Richard Boleslawski, Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Noir, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Nigel Bruce, Jessie Ralph
Rating63% 3.197043.197043.197043.197043.19704
When Lord Francis Kelton (Frank Morgan) finds a beautiful woman in his stateroom, he is flustered, but his playboy friend, Lord Arthur Dilling (Robert Montgomery), is fascinated by her. He finds out from the ship's purser that she is American widow Fay Cheyney on her way to stay in England. In London, she becomes the darling of English society, impressing everyone, including Arthur's wealthy aunt, the Duchess of Ebley (Jessie Ralph), who invites her to stay with her for the weekend. Arthur tries to impress Fay, but is rejected by her, even though she is becoming attracted to him.
Cairo
Cairo (1942)
, 1h41
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Spy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Reginald Owen, Ethel Waters, Lionel Atwill, Grant Mitchell
Rating60% 3.04923.04923.04923.04923.0492
Marcia Warren (Jeanette MacDonald), while "between pictures" in London hires an American reporter, Homer Smith (Robert Young) as her butler. What Marcia doesn't know is that Smith is an American newspaperman, who strongly suspects that she is a Nazi spy (the real enemy agent is Mrs. Morrison (Mona Barrie).
Secret Agent
Secret Agent (1936)
, 1h26
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Spy, Crime, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young, Lilli Palmer, Percy Marmont
Rating63% 3.1974353.1974353.1974353.1974353.197435
British Captain and novelist Edgar Brodie (Gielgud) returns home on leave during the First World War, only to discover his obituary in the newspaper. He is brought to a man identifying himself only as "R", who asks him to undertake a secret mission: to identify and eliminate a German agent on his way to Arabia to stir up trouble in the Middle East. Upon agreeing, Brodie is given a new identity (Richard Ashenden), a fake death, and the assistance of a killer known variously as "the Hairless Mexican" and "the General" (Lorre), though he is neither bald, Mexican or a general.
A Society Exile
A Society Exile (1919)

Directed by George Fitzmaurice
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Elsie Ferguson, Julia Dean, Warburton Gamble, Zeffie Tilbury, William P. Carleton, Henry Stephenson

Based upon a plot summary included in a film review in a film publication, Nora (Ferguson) is an American heiress who is courted by Lord Bissett (Gamble) while visiting England. She overhears Bissett discussing with his sister the need of Nora's money to replenish his fortune, so she leaves him and moves into a nearby
Rendezvous
Rendezvous (1935)
, 1h34
Directed by William K. Howard, Sam Wood, Lawrence Weingarten
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero, Samuel S. Hinds
Rating65% 3.2936653.2936653.2936653.2936653.293665
In April 1917, former newspaperman William Gordon (William Powell) is commissioned in the U.S. Army. The day before he is to leave Washington, D.C. for France, he meets socialite Joel Carter (Rosalind Russell) at an embassy gathering. The couple spend the day together where Gordon confides that because he once wrote a book on cryptography under a pen name, the army is searching for him to put him to work behind a desk, but he is eager to get into the fighting. Just before he boards his train, Gordon is ordered to report to Assistant Secretary of War John Carter (Samuel S. Hinds). Over his objections, Carter assigns Gordon to the code-breaking room to help break an intercepted German message that Major Brennan (Lionel Atwill), an experienced British cryptologist, has been unable to decipher. Gordon learns that Carter is Joel's uncle, and that she revealed his true identity to keep him in Washington.
Operator 13
Operator 13 (1934)
, 1h25
Directed by Richard Boleslawski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Spy, Historical, Musical, Romance, Western
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Marion Davies, Gary Cooper, Jean Parker, Katharine Alexander, Marjorie Gateson, Ted Healy
Rating59% 2.950372.950372.950372.950372.95037
In the American Civil War, Union forces are in retreat after their defeat in the Second Battle of Bull Run. The Pauline Cushman Players are performing for wounded soldiers at a US military hospital. Pauline, a spy who works for Allen Pinkerton, persuades Gail to become a spy for the Union cause as Operator 13.