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IF I WERE KING
U.S., 1938
Directed by Frank Lloyd
Written by Preston Sturges
Starring Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee, Ellen Drew
Approx. 101 min. New 4K Restoration.
Ronald Colman, as swashbuckling beggar-poet François Villon, engages in battle of wits with wily king Basil Rathbone in superbly-recreated 15th-century France. For his re-write of the 40-year-old play, Sturges personally translated Villon’s poetry and added some Villonesque verse of his own.