12 Feb 1932
Shanghai Express
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Voltaire
Beautiful women were pawns in the dangerous game he played with kings and nations!
Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire, but is increasingly influenced against him by his minister, the Count de Sarnac.
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George Arliss Voltaire
Margaret Lindsay Nanette Calas
Doris Kenyon Mme. Pompadour
Alan Mowbray Count de Sarnac
Reginald Owen King Louis XV
Theodore Newton François
Gordon Westcott The Captain
Murray Kinnell Emile, Voltaire's Servant
Doris Lloyd Mme. Clarion, Actress
David Torrence Dr. Tronchin
John George Protester in Montage
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