The Vagabond King (1930)
With Jeanette MacDonald, Warner Oland, Dennis King, Tom Ricketts, Lillian Roth, O.P. Heggie, Arthur Stone
Directed by Ludwig Berger
The Vagabond King is a 1930 American pre-Code musical operetta film photographed entirely in two-color Technicolor. The plot of the film was based on the 1925 operetta of the same name, which was based on the 1901 play If I Were King by Justin Huntly McCarthy. The play told the story of the real-life renegade French poet named François Villon. The music of the film was based on a 1925 operetta, also based on the play If I Were King by McCarthy. The operetta is also titled The Vagabond King with music by Rudolph Friml and lyrics by Brian Hooker and W.H. Post. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction.
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