FIT FOR A KING (1937) Joe E. Brown, Helen Mack & Paul Kelly | Comedy, Romance | B&W

Fit for a King is a 1937 American comedy film starring Joe E. Brown and directed by Edward Sedgwick.

SYNOPSIS
A newspaper reporter assigned to do a story on royalty and the antics begin. Some comic relief.

Newspaper reporter "Scoops" (Brown) is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio (Harry Davenport).

Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton (Helen Mack) who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.

The film ends with a wild chase and a shootout with machine guns. The question is, who will survive to tell the tale?

CAST & CREW
Joe E. Brown as Virgil Ambrose Jeremiah Christopher 'Scoop' Jones
Helen Mack as Jane Hamilton / Princess Helen
Paul Kelly as Briggs
Harry Davenport as Archduke Julio
Halliwell Hobbes as Count Strunsky
John Qualen as Otto
Donald Briggs as Prince Michael
Frank Reicher as Kurtz
Russell Hicks as Editor Hardwick
Charles Trowbridge as Mr. Marshall

Directed by Edward Sedgwick
Written by Richard Flournoy (original screenplay)
Produced by David L. Loew
Cinematography Paul C. Vogel
Edited by Jack Ogilvie
Music by Arthur Morton
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date 15 October 1937
Running time 73 minutes
Country United States
Language English