Voltaire

Voltaire

🎞️ Movie 72 min US
โ˜… 6.4 /10 1933

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. Louis's mistress, the courtesan Madame de Pompadour, is Voltaire's protector and advocate, but even she has difficulty preserving his welfare when Voltaire publicly excoriates the king for the wrongful execution of one of his subjects, Calas. Voltaire gives refuge to Calas's daughter and endeavors to show the king the error of his ways. But the Count de Sarnac, with an agenda of intrigue and disloyalty, determines to do away with the troublesome Voltaire.

Cast

George Arliss
George Arliss
Voltaire
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Doris Kenyon
Mme. Pompadour
Margaret Lindsay
Margaret Lindsay
Nanette Calas
Reginald Owen
Reginald Owen
King Louis XV
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Theodore Newton
Francois
Alan Mowbray
Alan Mowbray
Count De Sarnac
Gordon Westcott
Gordon Westcott
The Captain
Murray Kinnell
Murray Kinnell
Emile - Voltaire's Servant
Doris Lloyd
Doris Lloyd
Mme. Clairon - Actress
Douglass Dumbrille
Douglass Dumbrille
Actor - Oriental King in Play
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Tony Gaudio
Cinematographer