His Royal Slyness

Name: His Royal Slyness
Director: Hal Roach
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1920
Duration: 27 min
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Harry 'Snub' Pollard, Gus Leonard, Noah Young

1920 Comedy 27 minutes Directed by Hal Roach

About His Royal Slyness

The Prince of Razzamatazz is in America when a telegram orders him to the kingdom of Thermosa to compete with the drunken Prince of Roquefort for Princess Florelle. He would rather stay with Verona Vermuth. She notices that a book agent looks just like the prince and talks the agent into going in his place. The tutor takes a bribe. In Thermosa the agent dodges an anti-monarchist mob, then stays once he sees Florelle. She picks him over Roquefort. The real prince arrives and exposes him. Thrown into the street, the agent fires a cannon into the palace by accident, the monarchy falls, and he is made president. He uses the job to pull Florelle and her parents out of the mob.

Cast & crew

More about His Royal Slyness

Hal Roach directed and produced the two-reeler. H. M. Walker wrote it. Pathé Exchange released it on February 8, 1920. It is the last Lloyd short with Snub Pollard, who then starred in his own series. A 1927 remake, Long Fliv the King, features Oliver Hardy.

Themes

A book agent in a prince's clothes
Verona Vermuth and the royal allowance
Florelle choosing the wrong man
A cannon shot that makes a president
Thermosa
Razzamatazz
Prince of Roquefort
Princess Florelle
book agent
cannon
revolution
Harold Lloyd

Music

Silent. No composer is credited.

Notes

Harold Lloyd is the American book agent. His brother Gaylord Lloyd, uncredited, is the Prince of Razzamatazz.
Mildred Davis is Princess Florelle. Harry "Snub" Pollard is the Prince of Roquefort.
Gus Leonard doubles as King Louis XIVIIX and as a Bolshevik orator. Noah Young is the bodyguard, Count Nichola Throwe.
Marie Mosquini, uncredited, is Verona Vermuth, who dumps the real prince once the royal money stops.
Helen Gilmore is the queen. The prince's girlfriend throws him out the moment she hears he is cut off.

Scenes

Verona Vermuth spots the lookalike book agent and sells him the prince's trip.
The agent reaches the palace only after escaping the anti-monarchist crowd.
Florelle picks him over the Prince of Roquefort, then the real prince walks in.
An accidental cannon shot into the palace ends the monarchy and makes him president.