Main Cast: Lex Barker, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jeffrey Stone, Maurice Manson
Release Year: 1957
Country: US
Run Time: 81 minutes
Plot
Zsa Zsa Gabor plays twin sisters in this campy Red Scare espionage thriller from the late 1950s. She plays the nurse to Joseph Stalin, who didn't die in 1953 after all. The death was all a nefarious scam in which the leader faked his death, had his face surgically rearranged and then moved to Greece with a fortune in Soviet currency. Nurse Zsa Zsa, who is also Stalin's lover. Unfortunately, she told no one where she was going. When her twin discovers her missing, she worries and hires an ex O.S.S. agent to find her. After much searching and danger, the agent finds the wicked dictator and sees that he this time his reign of terror is permanently ended. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
William Schallert - Jacob Stalin; Natalie Daryll - Dasha; Aram Katcher - Lavrenti Beria; Norbert Schiller - Ivan Brubof; Michael Fox - Igor Smetka; Elena Da Vinci - Olga Smetka; Phillipa Fallon - Nina; Charles Horvath - Deshilov; Kurt Katch - Commissar; Alfred Linder - Tata Brun; Zsa Zsa Gabor - Greta Grisenko; Franz Roehn - Old Man; Henry Rowland - Policeman; Dale Van Sickel - Cabby; Carl Sklover - Rashti; Peter Besbas - Wine Shop Owner; Albert Szabo - Truck Driver
Credit
Alexander Golitzen - Art Director, Eric Orbom - Art Director, Bill Thomas - Costume Designer, Russell Birdwell - Director, Sherman Todd - Editor, Joseph E. Gershenson - Composer (Music Score), Carl Guthrie - Cinematographer, Albert Zugsmith - Producer, DeWitt Bodeen - Screen Story, Harry Ruskin - Screen Story, Robert J. Hill - Screenwriter, Gene L. Coon - Screenwriter
The Girl in the Kremlin is a 1957Americanthriller which puts forth the premise that Joseph Stalin (played by Maurice Manson) faked his own death in 1953 and then moved to Greece with a fortune in Soviet currency. Zsa Zsa Gabor plays a dual role, Stalin’s nurse and lover as well as her twin sister who, unaware of Stalin’s plot, hires an ex O.S.S. agent (Lex Barker) to find her sister.
The film is best known for its opening scene where Stalin sadistically orders that a young woman with waist-length hair (played by Natalie Darryl in her only big screen appearance) have her head shaved completely bald. The head shaving is shown from start to finish, and was prominently featured in the advertising for the film despite having nothing to do with its plot.[1]
This was the last film directed by Russell Birdwell who later became a well-known publicist.
