Rasputin and the Empress

This sort of historical perversion, in the films and elsewhere, is not new; and the only point worth noting about the present instance is that the artistic result hardly seems worth the assassination of fact.

It is a clumsy, pretentious, aimless motion picture.

Boleslawksi's lavish production of this historical melodrama is best known today as the only film that all three Barrymores (John, Ethel and Lionel) made together.

Is memorable only because it's the one and only time that the Barrymore family appeared together on screen.