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The King

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Original title

Le roi

Year

1936

Running time

113 min.

Country

France

Director

Pierre Colombier

Screenwriter

Louis Verneuil. Play: Gaston Arman de Cavaillet, Emile Arène, Robert de Flers

Cast

Music

Billy Colson

Cinematography

Jules Kruger (B&W)

Producer

Les Films Modernes

Genre

Comedy

Synopsis

King John IV of Cerdania (Victor Francen), who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role in state council or boudoir to the hilt, is in Paris to sign a treaty, and becomes enmeshed in intrigue with an actress, Therese Mannix (Elvire Popesco) and involved in a bit of cuckoldry with YouYou Bourdier (Gaby Morlay), the ex-seamstress wife of a French senator, who is un-awed by money, power or the King's kisses. For his part, her husband, Senator Bourdier (Raimu), is glad to use his wealth, wife and collectivist ideals for social position, in spite of his democratic posing.

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The King

1936

Pierre Colombier