This movie is a crazy-quilt farrago of silliness, with Ossi Oswalda the soiled daughter of oyster magnate Victor Janson. She takes it into her head that she wants to marry a prince, and penniless Harry Liedtke is selected. He sends his friend Julius Falkenstein to look the situation over. Falkenstein is mistake for Liedtke, and so they are wed. Meanwhile....
I suppose you could make the point that there is satire in the script by Hanns Kräly and Lubitsch. However, despite claims to the contrary, there is no sign of the Lubitsch touch, in which plot and character points are subtly indicated by slight things: a transom closed, or a coat buttoned. Instead it is straight, outrageous farce. And very funny.
I suppose you could make the point that there is satire in the script by Hanns Kräly and Lubitsch. However, despite claims to the contrary, there is no sign of the Lubitsch touch, in which plot and character points are subtly indicated by slight things: a transom closed, or a coat buttoned. Instead it is straight, outrageous farce. And very funny.