Directed by:
Frank LloydScreenplay:
Preston SturgesCinematography:
Theodor SparkuhlComposer:
Richard HagemanCast:
Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee, Ellen Drew, C.V. France, Henry Wilcoxon, Stanley Ridges, Bruce Lester, Walter Kingsford, Alma Lloyd, Sidney Toler (more)Plots(1)
Set in 15th century Paris, a rogue poet matches wits with a crafty king and leads the Empire to victory in the spectacular romantic adventure If I Were King. Ronald Colman is at his swashbuckling best as Francois Villon and Basil Rathbone gives a superb Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Supporting Actor as Louis XI, a tyrant with a besieged city on the verge of revolt. When a twist of fate makes Villon the chief constable, the king gives him a week to save the city and win the love of a beautiful princess (Frances Dee)… or die! Deliciously wicked repartee abounds in the lavish, fast-paced entertainment which writer Preston Sturges claimed as one of his finest achievements. (Kino Lorber)
(more)Cast
Ronald Colman
UK
Best movies:
The Talk of the Town (1942)
If I Were King (1938)
Random Harvest (1942)
Basil Rathbone
South Africa
Best movies:
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Captain Blood (1935)
We're No Angels (1955)
Frances Dee
USA
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
Come and Get It (1936)
Little Women (1933)
Ellen Drew
USA
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
C.V. France
UK
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
It Happened One Sunday (1944)
Night Train to Munich (1940)
Henry Wilcoxon
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Stanley Ridges
UK
Best movies:
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
If I Were King (1938)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Bruce Lester
South Africa
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
Man Hunt (1941)
The Letter (1940)
Walter Kingsford
UK
Best movies:
Captains Courageous (1937)
If I Were King (1938)
Carefree (1938)
Alma Lloyd
USA
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
Sidney Toler
USA
Best movies:
Double Wedding (1937)
If I Were King (1938)
Our Relations (1936)
Colin Tapley
New Zealand
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
The Dam Busters (1955)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
Ralph Forbes
UK
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
Stage Door (1937)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
John Miljan
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
If I Were King (1938)
Juarez (1939)
William Haade
USA
Best movies:
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
If I Were King (1938)
Adrian Morris
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
If I Were King (1938)
Montagu Love
UK
Best movies:
The Wind (1928)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Lester Matthews
UK
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
William Farnum
USA
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
The Crusades (1935)
Paul Harvey
USA
Best movies:
Sabrina (1954)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
If I Were King (1938)