Started to watch this a while back but gave up after a first ten minutes of pure inanity. Having enjoyed another Gene Gerrard comedy, It's A Bet, thought I'd give it another try, and it turned out to be a wafer-light B.I.P. farce of the time with well-timed comical situations and some amusing dialogue. Gerrard is an English playboy who somehow becomes a reluctant king of Europe's smallest country aided and abetted by Gus McNaughton as his American financial advisor who talks in catchphrases and lives on peanuts. Most of the action takes place in the home of an English duke and the king falls for his daughter (Molly Lamont) being relieved the tiny country has been bought for use as 'a dirt track'.
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malcolmgsw4 December 2016
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Gene Gerrard plays a King of a Ruritanian country.He is bored with his existence and that he is constantly shadowed by his bodyguards as he is fearful of attempts on his life.The country is bankrupt and he has brought in an American adviser,rather incongrouously played by Gus McNaughton.He decides that he needs a break and takes a trip to London.He is invited to a Dukes house where he meets and falls for his daughter played by Molly Lamont.Subsequently he is mistaken for a jewel thief and is shot.However the blood on his shirt turns out to be brandy as the shot hits a brandy flask in his breast pocket.Gerrard wins the girl.Gerrard is a sort of second rate version of Jack Buchanan in an adaptation of a third rate play.
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