Knight without Armour (published in the U.S. as without Armor) is a British thriller novel by James Hilton, first published in 1933. A British secret agent in Russia rescues the daughter of a Tsarist minister from a group of Bolshevik revolutionaries. The novel was the basis for the 1937 British film Knight without Armour directed by Jacques Feyder and starring Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat. It was made at Denham Studios by Alexander Korda's London Films. Hilton's original story was adapted into a screenplay by Frances Marion, Lajos Bíró and Arthur Wimperis. Head, Dominic. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Knight Without Armour was adapted into a 1937 film.
Knight Without Armour1937 · film · 107 min · dir. Jacques Feyder · IMDb ↗IMDb6.8In the last days of Czarist Russia, Russian-speaking Briton A.J. Fothergill is enlisted by his government to go undercover as Bolshevik radical Peter Ouranoff in an attempt to gain access to the revolutionaries' inner circle. Tasked with accompanying lovely aristocrat Alexandra Vladinoff from Moscow to Petrograd to be tried for crimes against the proletariat, Peter attempts to spirit her out of the war-torn country.
