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The year after the all-star Grand Hotel, brothers John and Lionel Barrymore teamed again in Rasputin and the Empress. Joining them in a sumptuous and stirring tale about the often-called Mad Monk who held a powerful -- perhaps hypnotic -- sway over World War I-era Russian royalty was the third member of the American stage’s Royal Family: Ethel Barrymore, making this the lone feature with all three thespian with footage from the actual era, the film burns with intrigue, betrayal, rivalry an
