It's a King

1933 film

Paul England
Claude Hulbert
Bert Lee
Jack Marks
R. P. Weston

Produced byHerbert WilcoxStarring

Sydney Howard
Joan Maude
Cecil Humphreys

Cinematography

Cyril Bristow
Freddie Young

Music by

Lew Stone
Harris Weston

Production
company

British and Dominions

Distributed byWoolf & Freedman Film Service

Release date

1933 (1933)

Running time

68 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

It's a King is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Sydney Howard, Joan Maude and Cecil Humphreys.^[1] It was made at Elstree Studios by the producer Herbert Wilcox's British and Dominions company.^[2]

Plot

Farce in which insurance agent Albert King is discovered to be the exact double of the king of Helgia, and even has his name in reverse (King Albert). Insurance man Albert enjoys a romance with a princess, before finally saving the King from assassination by anarchists.

Cast

Sydney Howard as Albert King / King Albert
Joan Maude as Princess Yasma
Cecil Humphreys as Count Yendoff
George De Warfaz as Colonel Brandt
Arthur Goullet as Leader
Franklyn Bellamy as Salvatore
Bela Berkes as himself
Lew Stone as himself

References

^ "It's a King (1932)". Archived from the original on 16 August 2016.
^ Wood p.75

Bibliography

Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

It's a King at IMDb

The films of Jack Raymond

A Woman Misunderstood (1921)
Somehow Good (1927)
Second to None (1927)
Zero (1928)
A Peep Behind the Scenes (1929)
Splinters (1929)
French Leave (1930)
The Great Game (1930)
Up for the Cup (1931)
The Speckled Band (1931)
Tilly of Bloomsbury (1931)
Almost a Divorce (1931)
Mischief (1931)
Life Goes On (1932)
Say It with Music (1932)
Up to the Neck (1933)
Night of the Garter (1933)
Just My Luck (1933)
It's a King (1933)
Sorrell and Son (1934)
The King of Paris (1934)
Girls, Please! (1934)
Where's George? (1935)
Come Out of the Pantry (1935)
When Knights Were Bold (1936)
The Frog (1937)
The Rat (1937)
Blondes for Danger (1938)
No Parking (1938)
A Royal Divorce (1938)
The Mind of Mr. Reeder (1939)
The Missing People (1940)
You Will Remember (1941)
Up for the Cup (1950)
Take Me to Paris (1951)
Worm's Eye View (1951)
Reluctant Heroes (1952)
Little Big Shot (1952)

v t e Films by Herbert Wilcox
As director	Chu-Chin-Chow (1923) Southern Love (1924) Decameron Nights (1924) The Only Way (1926) Nell Gwyn (1926) London (1926) Tip Toes (1927) Madame Pompadour (1927) Mumsie (1927) Dawn (1928) The Bondman (1929) The Woman in White (1929) The Loves of Robert Burns (1930) The Chance of a Night Time (1931) Carnival (1931) The Blue Danube (1932) Goodnight, Vienna (1932) Money Means Nothing (1932) The Little Damozel (1933) Bitter Sweet (1933) Yes, Mr Brown (1933) The Queen's Affair (1934) Nell Gwyn (1934) Peg of Old Drury (1935) This'll Make You Whistle (1936) Three Maxims (1936) London Melody (1937) Limelight (1937) Victoria the Great (1937) Sixty Glorious Years (1938) Nurse Edith Cavell (1939) Irene (1940) No, No, Nanette (1940) Sunny (1941) They Flew Alone (1942) Forever and a Day (1943) Yellow Canary (1943) I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945) Piccadilly Incident (1946) The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947) Spring in Park Lane (1948) Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948) Maytime in Mayfair (1949) Odette (1950) Into the Blue (1950) The Lady with a Lamp (1951) Derby Day (1952) Trent's Last Case (1952) Laughing Anne (1953) Trouble in the Glen (1954) Lilacs in the Spring (1954) King's Rhapsody (1955) My Teenage Daughter (1956) These Dangerous Years (1957) The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958) Wonderful Things! (1958) The Lady Is a Square (1959) The Heart of a Man (1959)
Producer only	The Wonderful Story (1922) Flames of Passion (1922) Paddy the Next Best Thing (1923) A Peep Behind the Scenes (1929) When Knights Were Bold (1929) Black Waters (1929) Splinters (1929) Rookery Nook (1930) Wolves (1930) Warned Off (1930) On Approval (1930) Plunder (1930) Tons of Money (1930) The Speckled Band (1931) Almost a Divorce (1931) Up for the Cup (1931) Mischief (1931) A Night Like This (1932) Life Goes On (1932) The Mayor's Nest (1932) Thark (1932) The Love Contract (1932) Leap Year (1932) The Flag Lieutenant (1932) Say It with Music (1932) The Barton Mystery (1932) The King's Cup (1933) Discord (1933) One Precious Year (1933) The Blarney Stone (1933) Lord of the Manor (1933) It's a King (1933) Summer Lightning (1933) Purse Strings (1933) That's a Good Girl (1933) Up for the Derby (1933) Just My Luck (1933) Trouble (1933) Night of the Garter (1933) Sorrell and Son (1933) Faces (1934) Lucky Loser (1934) It's a Cop (1934) General John Regan (1934) Girls, Please! (1934) Up to the Neck (1934) The King of Paris (1934) Lilies of the Field (1934) Brewster's Millions (1935) Escape Me Never (1935) Come Out of the Pantry (1935) Fame (1936) The Frog (1937) The Rat (1937) The Return of the Frog (1938) A Royal Divorce (1938) No Parking (1938) Blondes for Danger (1938) The Beggar's Opera (1953) Yangtse Incident (1957) The Navy Lark (1959)

Films by Herbert Wilcox

As director