The Grand Duchess Marie Louise is the beautiful young ruler of Molvania. She is a fun-loving girl who secretly hopes that the revolutionaries who threaten to take over her country are able to do so, as that will free her to go to America to be with the soldier friends she met during the Great War.


Plot in a nutshell: A bored grand duchess roots for the rebels who will dethrone her—because abdication is the fastest ticket to Coney Island. Courtly Glitter vs. Boardwalk Neon Director Harry Carr understands that monarchy on celluloid is usually gilt-edged tedium: sceptres, coronets, and stilted proclamations. He ...

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" Plot in a nutshell: A bored grand duchess roots for the rebels who will dethrone her—because abdication is the fastest ticket to Coney Island. Courtly Glitter vs. Boardwalk Neon Director Harry Carr understands that monarchy on celluloid is usually gilt-edged tedium: sceptres, coronets, and stilted proclamations. He flips the trope by staging sovereignty as a gilded cage so claustrophobic that even the audience yearns for a coup. Every palace corridor is over-exposed, blooming with halation, a..."
Ralph Graves
Wells Hastings, Harry Carr
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1927 · IMDb 7.6


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