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If I Were King Reviews. Basil Rathbone always projected confidence, intelligence, and authority -- that’s why his mincing, jabbering performance in If I Were King is such an unexpected...
Ron Oliver 30 July 2002. A cunning king of France allows a rapscallion poet to become Lord High Chancellor - for the space of only one week... IF I WERE KING is a fascinating film based on the fictionalized lives of two very real personages, Louis XI and François Villon.
If I Were King is a 1938 American biographical and historical film starring Ronald Colman as medieval poet François Villon, and featuring Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee. It is based on the 1901 play and novel, both of the same name, by Justin Huntly McCarthy, and was directed by Frank Lloyd, with a screenplay adaptation by Preston Sturges.
Jan 28, 2023 · Kings, rascals, noble and not-so-noble ladies and gentlemen get their counter-intuitively democratic due in Paramount Studio’s, director Frank Lloyd’s, and scriptwriter Preston Sturges’s rousing swashbuckler, lifting and leveling those feudal categories to a commonality born of political responsibility and poetic striving.
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king.
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Aug 5, 2019 · Frank Lloyd (“Oliver Twist”/”The Sea Hawk”) ably directs this witty fictionalized historical adventure tale of the French 15th century vagabond poet Francois Villon (Ronald Colman), who leads the Parisians in an uprising against the cruel King Louis XI (Basil Rathbone) and thereby saves his kingdom by getting him to temporarily change ...
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Feb 15, 2013 · The costume drama opens with Paris surrounded by the forces of the Duke of Burgundy, whose armies have laid siege to the city, aiming to starve out King Louis XI (Basil Rathbone, in a riveting, Oscar-nominated performance), a wily, cruel monarch.
