“Knight
Without Armour” is a historical drama, screenplay by Tom Mankiewicz based on the novel by James Hilton and
Directed by Jacques Feyder.
The
story revolves around A.J. Fothergill (Robert Donat), a fluent Russian speaker,
who is recruited as a British agent and sent to spy on the Bolshevik
revolutionary movement in 1913, shortly before World War I started.
He
plays his part so well that he's captured as a revolutionary and imprisoned in
Siberia and is held their until the 1917 uprisings when the revolutionary
forces free the political prisoners and Fothergill now has to try and make his
way home to Britain.
In a parallel story aristocrat Alexandra (Marlene Dietrich) is shocked one
morning when she wakes up to find her servants have fled because the Russian
Revolution had come to town, and she realises she has to leave her home as the
Bolsheviks are executing Czarist’s without hesitation.
It’s
after that how she comes to cross paths with Fothergill, and amid the turmoil
of the civil war between the red and white armies, they try to flee Russia.
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