Set in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advisers, to marry a young woman of royal blood. However, he has fallen for a peasant.


MGM’s 1928 silent feature, Forbidden Hours, lands squarely in the melodramatic tradition of its era: a dashing prince, a forbidden love, and the crushing weight of royal duty. Is i...
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Harry Beaumont

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John Colton, Andrew Percival Younger
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