 Upon its premiere "Rasputin and the Empress" ran approximately 132 minutes.  Due to the famous lawsuits against it, a number of scenes had to be cut for  legal reasons. One critical scene that was deleted was one which implied that  Rasputin had raped Diana Wynyards character of "Princess Natascha". The  removal of this scene tended to make the character of Princess Natascha  somewhat incomprehensible 