A KNIGHT IN LONDON (1928/29) seems to exist in an incomplete print that runs abut 45 minutes (originally 6,700 ft).
This Anglo-German film was directed by Lupu Pick in Germany and stars Lilian Harvey (German father, British mother) as Aline Morland ,traveling with her mother (Ivy Duke), who arrives at a hotel late one night. After taking a shower (down the hall) she goes back to her room but enters the wrong one. Next morning she meets snarky Prince Zalnoff (Bernard Nedell) in the hallway and assumes it was his room she slept in. But it was another man's (Robin Irvine) who was amused by the error.
After a few rough jumps in the story we settle into a house party. Irvine discovers that the Prince and Aline are wearing matching pinky rings (no idea what this signifies). But after he and Aline do a big dance number and he catches the Prince trying to kiss Aline, he thrashes him and throws him out. The prince leaves the ring and exits. End of film.
Harvey and Irvine were stars of the day but this was Ivy Duke's final film appearance. She's barely in what survives. Nedell was born in New York. The surviving print is from a Spanish archive and there are no intertitles of any kind. The BFI archive says it holds only reel 1, 694 ft. My guess is that two reels are missing from the Spanish print.
This Anglo-German film was directed by Lupu Pick in Germany and stars Lilian Harvey (German father, British mother) as Aline Morland ,traveling with her mother (Ivy Duke), who arrives at a hotel late one night. After taking a shower (down the hall) she goes back to her room but enters the wrong one. Next morning she meets snarky Prince Zalnoff (Bernard Nedell) in the hallway and assumes it was his room she slept in. But it was another man's (Robin Irvine) who was amused by the error.
After a few rough jumps in the story we settle into a house party. Irvine discovers that the Prince and Aline are wearing matching pinky rings (no idea what this signifies). But after he and Aline do a big dance number and he catches the Prince trying to kiss Aline, he thrashes him and throws him out. The prince leaves the ring and exits. End of film.
Harvey and Irvine were stars of the day but this was Ivy Duke's final film appearance. She's barely in what survives. Nedell was born in New York. The surviving print is from a Spanish archive and there are no intertitles of any kind. The BFI archive says it holds only reel 1, 694 ft. My guess is that two reels are missing from the Spanish print.