Category: The Emperor’s Candlesticks

  • The Emperor’s Candlesticks (1937, George Fitzmaurice)

    The Emperor’s Candlesticks starts with an exceptional display of chemistry from Robert Young and Maureen O’Sullivan. They’re at the opera, it’s the late nineteenth century, it’s a masked costume ball, Young is a Grand Duke dressed as Romeo, and O’Sullivan is the sun. Then it turns out O’Sullivan is working with a bunch of Polish…