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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Cast
- George ArlissVoltaire
- Margaret LindsayNanette Calas
- Doris KenyonMme. Pompadour
- Alan MowbrayCount de Sarnac
- Reginald OwenKing Louis XV
- Theodore NewtonFrançois
- Gordon WestcottThe Captain
- Murray KinnellEmile, Voltaire's Servant
- Doris LloydMme. Clarion, Actress
- David TorrenceDr. Tronchin
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- John G. AdolfiDirector
- Paul GreenWriter
- Maude T. HowellWriter
- George GibbsNovel
- E. Lawrence DudleyNovel
- Tony GaudioDirector of Photography
- Owen MarksEditor
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