Word: rasputine
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...match her there is a new John Barrymore, emerging from the mists of reserve and whimsy felt rather than seen in "Rasputin and the Empress," and in "Grand Hotel." The slow tempo of these parts probably derives from that streak in Barrymore which made an unduly ruminative Hamlet in the old days, while these dashing airs, this hereditarial madness of Hapsburgs and Barrymores recalls Prince Hal of a past decade. In the role of a self-infoxteated. Vienna-crazed Hapsburg Grand Duke, the last of those emotional extroverts known as Prince Charmings, John Barrymore makes Mr. Lunt's "Prince Rudolph...
Tremont--"Rasputin and the Empress." The acting of the three Barrymores makes this film a vivid picture of Russia in the days of sable and ermine...
Tremont--"Rasputin and the Empress." The acting of the Barrymoros makes this worth seeing. Noithor this nor "Cavalcado" are at popular prices...
...must not be supposed from these two incidents that Rasputin and the Empress consists entirely of gore and gunpowder. It starts as a pedestrian historical romance, documented with occasional newsreel shots. The Tsarina pats her children on the head. Chegodieff makes love to a lady in waiting (Diana Wynyard). Rasputin endears himself to his betters by curing the ailing Tsarevitch with hypnotism. He acquires control of the government by conspiring with the head of the secret police, loses favor by trying to paddile into the bedroom of an adolescent princess...
...chief problems in inventing a picture in which all three Barrymores could act was to think of one in which the brothers would not offend the public by pretending sexual interest in their sister. Rasputin not only solves this problem but gives two of the Barrymores a chance to execute their specialties. Lionel spits on the floor and regurgitates even more loudly than he did in Grand Hotel. Ethel wears a nurse's headdress like the nun's towel she had in The Kingdom of God and hums her lines so as to sound thoroughly regal. Director Richard...