The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)
Note: this print runs 75 minutes against a recorded 79 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Luise Rainer, William Powell, Leander de Cordova, Maude Turner Gordon, Roland Varno, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Morgan
Directed by George Fitzmaurice
The Emperor's Candlesticks is a 1937 American historical drama film starring William Powell and Luise Rainer and directed by George Fitzmaurice. It is based on the 1899 novel of the same name by Baroness Orczy. The story follows the adventures of spies from opposing sides who fall in love while following the eponymous candlesticks—and the papers hidden inside them—all over turn-of-the-20th-century Europe.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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