Musical producer Kelly (Guy Robertson) and assistant Happy (Edgar Kennedy) learn mid-ocean voyage that their show has been cancelled. Through some quick trading with businessman Franklin Pangborn (who has his eye on one of the chorus girls), they unload the show and receive in return a handful of cash and the rights to manage business dealings of the small kingdom of Belgardia. What they don't know is that a) Belgardia is broke, and b) the girl Kelly has fallen in love with on the ship is the princess of said small kingdom.
The shipboard segment of this movie is fairly standard—light comedy that's pleasant but not remarkable in any way. Once the action reaches Belgardia, things get very nutty.
The Belgardian king is an unprepossessing little guy who goes out alone on bike rides in the country, crashes his bike, stands on the side of the road trying to flag down passing cars, and moaning "But I'm the king" when no one stops. Ferdinand Gottschalk is very funny.
Irene Ware is the princess who had been traveling incognito on the ship; she and Kelly each don't know the other is in the kingdom until a clever scene in which he tries—through a closed door—to talk her into marrying a rich prince of a neighboring kingdom. Needless to say, that plan is eventually nixed.
As best I can discover, Guy Robertson was a stage actor who appeared in Broadway musicals. He sings a handful of songs in this picture—which is apparently the only movie he ever made. He does quite well as the fast talking leading man whose plan to rescue the kingdom from the brink of foreclosure is basically to turn the palace into Coney Island.
Oh, the reason Belgardia is broke? Their only product has always been mops and now everyone has a vacuum cleaner. --All in all, it's good, wacky fun.
The shipboard segment of this movie is fairly standard—light comedy that's pleasant but not remarkable in any way. Once the action reaches Belgardia, things get very nutty.
The Belgardian king is an unprepossessing little guy who goes out alone on bike rides in the country, crashes his bike, stands on the side of the road trying to flag down passing cars, and moaning "But I'm the king" when no one stops. Ferdinand Gottschalk is very funny.
Irene Ware is the princess who had been traveling incognito on the ship; she and Kelly each don't know the other is in the kingdom until a clever scene in which he tries—through a closed door—to talk her into marrying a rich prince of a neighboring kingdom. Needless to say, that plan is eventually nixed.
As best I can discover, Guy Robertson was a stage actor who appeared in Broadway musicals. He sings a handful of songs in this picture—which is apparently the only movie he ever made. He does quite well as the fast talking leading man whose plan to rescue the kingdom from the brink of foreclosure is basically to turn the palace into Coney Island.
Oh, the reason Belgardia is broke? Their only product has always been mops and now everyone has a vacuum cleaner. --All in all, it's good, wacky fun.