The King on Main Street

19251925
1h

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Adolphe Menjou in The King on Main Street (1925)

King Serge IV of Molvania (Menjou) comes to Manhattan to conduct business with Arthur Trent (Kilgour), but instead goes to Coney Island, where he meets Gladys Humphreys (Love) and John Rockl... Read allKing Serge IV of Molvania (Menjou) comes to Manhattan to conduct business with Arthur Trent (Kilgour), but instead goes to Coney Island, where he meets Gladys Humphreys (Love) and John Rockland (Shaw). John, not knowing the king's royal identity, invites him to his home at Little... Read allKing Serge IV of Molvania (Menjou) comes to Manhattan to conduct business with Arthur Trent (Kilgour), but instead goes to Coney Island, where he meets Gladys Humphreys (Love) and John Rockland (Shaw). John, not knowing the king's royal identity, invites him to his home at Little Falls, New Jersey. The king falls in love with Gladys, but Trent catches them in a compro... Read all

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6.8/10

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Director
- Monta Bell
Writers
- Gaston Arman de Caillavet(play "Le roi", 1908)
- Monta Bell(adaptation)
- Douglas Z. Doty
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Trivia
Two sequences, totaling 105 ft., a military parade in reel 1 and the closing wedding scene in reel 6, were filmed in 2-strip Technicolor, but are not known to survive.

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Featured in Hollywood (1980)

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4/10

Rather flat social comedy

Adolphe Menjou is king of a small European country. He comes to New York to help secure a contract to develop his country's oil, but then sneaks away from his hotel for some fun in Coney Island, meets young woman Bessie Love, and accepts an invitation to a county house to be with ordinary people.

Adolphe Menjou has his typical rich playboy role but doesn't do much playing. Bessie Love doesn't answer the question 'why was she a big star in silent pictures?'.

Some Coney Island location shooting, including a roller coaster ride, but the Coney Island atmosphere is better seen in many other movies, for example some of the Fatty Arbuckle pictures.

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