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Knight Without Armor

Original title: Knight Without Armour
  • 19371937
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 47m
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Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat in Knight Without Armor (1937)
AdventureDramaHistory
After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
1.3K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
52,335
46,661
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    • Director
      • Jacques Feyder
    • Writers
      • James Hilton(from the novel by)
      • Frances Marion(adaptation)
      • Lajos Biró(screen play)
    • Stars
      • Marlene Dietrich
      • Robert Donat
      • Irene Vanbrugh
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Jacques Feyder
    • Writers
      • James Hilton(from the novel by)
      • Frances Marion(adaptation)
      • Lajos Biró(screen play)
    • Stars
      • Marlene Dietrich
      • Robert Donat
      • Irene Vanbrugh
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    • 31User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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    Marlene Dietrich in Knight Without Armor (1937)
    Marlene Dietrich in Knight Without Armor (1937)
    Marlene Dietrich in Knight Without Armor (1937)
    Marlene Dietrich and Irene Vanbrugh in Knight Without Armor (1937)
    Marlene Dietrich in Knight Without Armor (1937)
    Marlene Dietrich in Knight Without Armor (1937)
    Marlene Dietrich and Irene Vanbrugh in Knight Without Armor (1937)
    Marlene Dietrich in Knight Without Armor (1937)
    Irene Vanbrugh in Knight Without Armor (1937)
    Marlene Dietrich in Knight Without Armor (1937)
    Marlene Dietrich and Austin Trevor in Knight Without Armor (1937)
    Marlene Dietrich and Irene Vanbrugh in Knight Without Armor (1937)

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    Marlene Dietrich
    Marlene Dietrich
    • Alexandra
    Robert Donat
    Robert Donat
    • A.J. Fothergill
    Irene Vanbrugh
    Irene Vanbrugh
    • Duchess
    Herbert Lomas
    • Vladinoff
    Austin Trevor
    Austin Trevor
    • Colonel Adraxine
    Basil Gill
    Basil Gill
    • Axelstein
    David Tree
    David Tree
    • Maronin
    John Clements
    John Clements
    • Poushkoff
    Frederick Culley
    • Stanfield
    Lawrence Hanray
    • Forrester
    Dorice Fordred
    • The Maid
    Franklyn Kelsey
    • Tomsky
    • (as Franklin Kelsey)
    Laurence Baskcomb
    • Commissar
    • (as Lawrence Baskcomb)
    Hay Petrie
    Hay Petrie
    • Station Master
    Miles Malleson
    Miles Malleson
    • Drunken Red Commissar
    • (as Miles Malieson)
    Allan Jeayes
    Allan Jeayes
    • White General
    Lyn Harding
    Lyn Harding
    • Bargee
    Raymond Huntley
    Raymond Huntley
    • White Officer
    • Director
      • Jacques Feyder
    • Writers
      • James Hilton(from the novel by)
      • Frances Marion(adaptation)
      • Lajos Biró(screen play)
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    • Trivia
      During the shooting, Robert Donat had a severe attack of asthma and the film was delayed for almost a month. The producers wanted to replace him, but Marlene Dietrich refused. According to Robert Osborne, host of Turner Classic Movies, Marlene Dietrich waived her salary during Robert Donat's illness and nursed him until he was well enough to return to filming.
    • Goofs
      When Peter Ouronov buries Alexandra in the fallen leaves, Alexandra is facing up. When he returns, she comes out from the leaves facing down.
    • Quotes

      Ainsley J. Fothergill aka Peter Ouronov: [the darkness of the gulag is making him lose his mind. Shouting] Night... night... night! Night all the time! Ceaseless night! Nothing but night all over the earth! The sun must be dead! Everything must be dead! We're the last things alive!

    • Crazy credits
      Opening credits prologue: ASCOT 1913
    • Connections
      Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: La monnaie de l'absolu (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Alexandra's Song
      (uncredited)

      Music by Miklós Rózsa

    User reviews31

    Review
    Top review
    Somewhere my love...
    That was Jacques Feyder's only English movie.He had just done his major works " Le Grand Jeu" "Pension mimosas" and "La Kermesse Heroique" and "Knight without armour" in spite of obvious qualities cannot compare with them.

    This is a tormented love story between a commissar (Donat) and a Russian countess of the old Russian aristocracy (Dietrich)who try to get to the border .The plot sometimes recalls a "Doctor Zhivago" in miniature.

    Best scenes ,in my opinion,are to be found in the first part: Dietrich,walking across her desirable mansion,all dressed in white ,finding that her staff has left home and joined the revolution;the same,facing a sinister-looking pack of Reds in her park.

    The mad station master,ceaselessly repeating that a train is coming into the station (madness was also present in Feyder's former works :"Le Grand jeu "was a good example of folie à deux )
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    • Jan 24, 2008

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    • Release date
      • July 23, 1937 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Languages
      • English
      • Russian
    • Also known as
      • Jacques Feyder's Knight Without Armor
    • Filming locations
      • London Film Studios, Denham Studios, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
    • Production company
      • London Film Productions
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    • Budget
      • $300,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 47 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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