Cast
- George Arliss as Voltaire
- Doris Kenyon as Madame Pompadour
- Margaret Lindsay as Nanette Calas
- Alan Mowbray as the Count de Sarnac
- Reginald Owen as King Louis XV
- Theodore Newton as Francois, a friend of Nanette
- Gordon Westcott as the Captain
- David Torrence as Dr. Tronchin, Voltaire's doctor
- Murray Kinnell as Emile
- Doris Lloyd as Madame Clarion
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“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 8:12.
Referring to “the children of the kingdom ... cast out into outer darkness.” The words are also used in the parable of the talents, in Matthew 25:30, said of the “unprofitable servant.”
“What is the use of “good” painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
““The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!” And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.”
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