Good King Pausole selects a wife for every day in the year but one protests when he spends her day searching for his favorite daughter who has eloped with a visiting airman stranded in the kingdom..
Is it worth your time? Honestly, you probably shouldn't watch this unless you have a very specific appetite for early sound-era weirdness. It's a bit of a slog if you want a coherent plot, but if you like seeing Emil Jannings acting like a bored, indulgent monarch, you might find something here. People who hate slow, s...
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"Is it worth your time? Honestly, you probably shouldn't watch this unless you have a very specific appetite for early sound-era weirdness. It's a bit of a slog if you want a coherent plot, but if you like seeing Emil Jannings acting like a bored, indulgent monarch, you might find something here. People who hate slow, stagey European comedies from the thirties will want to stay far away from this one. It feels less like a movie and more like a captured theater production that forgot to tell the a..."
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