My Friend the King – 1931 | 47 mins | Comedy | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Michael Powell‘s third film as director, My Friend the King – another comedy starring Jerry Verno – was finished and on release while editing took place on the just-completed Rynox. The unlikely plot concerning a kidnapped young Ruritanian prince and a London taxi driver, masquerading as a countess the taxi driver rescues the nine-year-old ruler from revolutionaries led by Count Huelin. During his first year as a feature director, Powell worked on five pictures. ‘They couldn’t all … be good and they weren’t', he later wrote, considering this ‘a very weak story … I only remember it as a complete failure’.