VHS : Rasputin & The Empress
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Rating:  - a curiosity piece
The main interest in this film is to see the three renowned Barrymore siblings act together, and though it is rather stiff and heavy handed, ultra melodramatic, and the direction often looks "staged", as if it were a play rather than a film, it also has lavish sets and costumes, and some history on the side.
The plot starts in 1913, and runs through the assassination of the Romanov family in 1918. Rasputin is here portrayed as part Svengali, as he hypnotizes Alexis with a big watch on a chain, ... Read More
Rating:  - THE THREE BARRYMORES - TOGETHER.
This is the only sound film in which the three legendary Barrymore siblings ever appeared together. Never considered a dynamic classic, it nevertheless gives viewers a glimpse of America's Royal Family of the Theatre at work. In 1913 Russia, Czar Nicholai Alexander and Czarina Alexandra opulently celebrate 3OO years of the Romanoff dynasty, unaware that their empire is crumbling down all around them....The working title for this film was simply RASPUTIN. Although Charles MacArthur is solely credited ... Read More
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