back in the 30 and the studio make dozen of movie that be set in europe to give american during the depression a sense of fantasy and other world glamor and and to keep their foreign market . the emperor candlesticks star william powell and luise rainer be such a film and with support role feature two young star and robert young and maureen osullivan . powell and rainer be oppose foreign agent who each hide their document in a pair of candlestick to be bring to russia a a gift to a noblewoman . the candlestick be to be deliver by powell and but rainer talk the austrian who have give him the task to let her do it . they be steal by her maid and her boyfriend and and both powell and rainer try to be the first to recover them . powell and rainer be delightful in this crazy story . rainer and with her small face and enormous eye and be gorgeous and play the part of a spy with charm . powell be always good and play off rainer very well . robert young and maureen osullivan portray a prince and his kidnapper accomplice and respectively and who meet at a masquerade ball and he dress a romeo and she a juliet . their last scene together be very sweet . this movie be odd for one reason . the star all live for a very long time and and in fact and rainer at this writing be still alive at the age of 96. young live to 91 and osullivan to 87 and powell to 91. must have be something in the water on the set . wish it have be present on more film .