To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...
Acting
Wheeler & Woolsey's rapid-fire banter and physical comedy gold.
Writing
Pre-code freedom allows genuinely subversive political jokes.
Director
Edward F. Cline
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wheeler and Woolsey were RKO's second-biggest comedy duo after Laurel and Hardy, but their ribald pre-code humor made them nearly unrevivable after the Code hit.
Edward F. Cline co-directed Buster Keaton's greatest shorts—this film's mechanical precision in chaos is no accident.
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