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 Vagabond King: Directed by Ludwig Berger, Ernst Lubitsch. With Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, Warner Oland, O.P. Heggie. The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve.

The story is a fictionalized episode in the life of the 15th-century poet and thief François Villon, centering on his wooing of Katherine De Vaucelles (the cousin of King Louis XI), and relating how he becomes “king for a day” and defends France against the …

Oct 13, 2022 · In the shadows of Notre Dame, poet/rapscallion Francois Villon (Dennis King) spends his nights bemusing lusty barmaids (Lilian Roth) and profaning the name of the king, Louis the XI (O.P. Heggie).

Nov 2, 2016 · win the love of the beautiful Katherine. The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered...

His Grand Marshal, Thibault, secretly in league with the Burgundians, plots the murder of the king and his royal niece, Katherine, but she is saved by François Villon, leader of the vagabonds, who falls in love with her.

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.

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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.

I have seen The Vagabond King (1930) twice on the big screen, in the restored two-strip Technicolor version and it is gorgeous. It is like a Rembrandt painting which moves, with lots of dark, muted colors which evoke the medieval setting.