Returning from war something less than a hero ("he saved a second lieutenant from fainting"), our humble protagonist Bobby Vernon nonetheless gets sucked into some very farcical post-combat politics involving Mittle-European royalty, Teutonic ruffians, forced marriage, much sword-fighting and mass ivy-climbing. Not to mention brief cross-dressing "gay" humor.
Bobby Vernon’s vertiginous two-reel fever dream—equal parts saber, slapstick, and ivy—skewers the very notion of the homecoming hero. The customary trajectory for a returning soldier is ticker tape and tremulous sweethearts; instead, our protagonist is handed a treasonous passport to the Duchy of Absurdia, where court...
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" Bobby Vernon’s vertiginous two-reel fever dream—equal parts saber, slapstick, and ivy—skewers the very notion of the homecoming hero. The customary trajectory for a returning soldier is ticker tape and tremulous sweethearts; instead, our protagonist is handed a treasonous passport to the Duchy of Absurdia, where court etiquette demands duels before dawn and betrothal by dusk. Vernon, face a constellation of freckles and disbelief, scuttles across banquet tables like a caffeinated squirrel while..."
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