The Royal Bed

Unrated

1/15/19311h 15m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Year's Sparkling Comedy Sensation ~

Overview:

The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.

Director:

Lowell Sherman

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

revolution
satire
royal family
pre-code
public domain

Cast

Lowell Sherman

~ as ~

King Eric VIII

Mary Astor

~ as ~

Princess Anne

Anthony Bushell

~ as ~

Freddie Granton

Hugh Trevor

~ as ~

Crown Prince William of Grec

Nance O'Neil

~ as ~

Martha, the Queen

Robert Warwick

~ as ~

Pemier General Northrup

Gilbert Emery

~ as ~

Phipps, the King's servant

Alan Roscoe

~ as ~

Birten

Frederick Burt

~ as ~

Fellman

J. Carrol Naish

~ as ~

Laker

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
6
I quite enjoyed this rather daft story about a small European Kingdom presided over by "King Eric" (Lowell Sherman) - an ostensibly feeble monarch who is being manipulated by his wife "Queen Martha" (Nance O'Neil), his independently-minded daughter "Anne" (Mary Astor) and his rebellious Prime Minister "Gen. Northrup" (Robert Warwick) who, in cahoots with his wife, has arranged a convenient marriage for the unwilling daughter. The princess, meantime, has her eyes on the King's secretary "Granton" (Anthony Bushell) and when her mother travels to the USA, they plan to elope - except an attempted coup gets in their way... It's only 75 minutes, this. It features some well timed, lightly comedic, performances from Sherman and O'Neil, and given it can't have had much of a budget - it is really quite a well stitched together, good looking caper. For some reason, they altered the title from Robert Sherwood's play "The Queen's Husband" - which I think is more illustrative of the story than this rather misleadingly risqué one - it doesn't really help!