When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly condition. The severely intoxicated Prince Potemkin concludes that the handsome Edstaston would be a suitable lover for Catherine, and he coerces the bewildered visitor into her bedchamber. Edstaston manages to escape, but he is repeatedly recaptured and delivered to the mischievous Catherine.
Peter O'Toole
Capt. Charles Edstaston
Zero Mostel
Potemkin
Jeanne Moreau
Catherine
Jack Hawkins
The British Ambassador
Akim Tamiroff
Sergeant
Marie Lohr
Dowager Lady Gorse
Marie Kean
Princess Dashkoff
Kenneth Griffith
Naryshkin
Angela Scoular
Claire
Kate O'Mara
Varinka
Gerald Lawson
Lea Seidl
Grand Duchess
Oliver MacGreevy
General Pskov
Norma Foster
Mongol
James Mellor
Colonel Pugachov
