The mystery passenger on Craddock's ship is his country's queen.When he loses money she's entrusted to him at roulette, he threatens to bomb Monte Carlo unless his loss is restored.
Acting
Jean Murat's theatrical swagger carries the absurd premise.
Production
Early talkie spectacle—Monte Carlo sets built for maximum pre-Code excess.
Director
Hanns Schwarz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a German-French co-production during the early sound era, when studios scrambled to make multilingual versions for different markets.
Pre-Code Hollywood (and its European cousins) loved gamblers who faced no consequences—moral enforcement was coming in 1934.
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