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Voltaire

5.7 72 mins History   Drama   1933
Warner Bros. Pictures  
Director(s): John G. Adolfi

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.

Casts of Voltaire

George Arliss

as Voltaire

Margaret Lindsay

as Nanette Calas

Doris Kenyon

as Mme. Pompadour

Alan Mowbray

as Count de Sarnac

Reginald Owen

as King Louis XV

Theodore Newton

as François

Gordon Westcott

as The Captain

Murray Kinnell

as Emile, Voltaire's Servant

Doris Lloyd

as Mme. Clarion, Actress

David Torrence

as Dr. Tronchin

John George

as Protester in Montage

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