No silent movie set in San Francisco was complete without a little visit to the rough side of town and The Vagabond Prince is no exception. And this is where we meet Fluffy (Dorothy Dalton), one of the top entertainers of the Barbary Coast. Prince on the run.Īnd so Tonio gets himself kitted out in scruffy clothes and sails for the United States. (As is usual in these films, we are not told what Princess Athalia thinks of all this.) Our pouting prince runs into a wandering artist from San Francisco, Burton Randall (Roy Laidlaw), who advises him to run away.
He wants romance, adventure, comfy clothes! But he also has to marry Princess Athalia. Tonio doesn’t get out much and is feeling the usual malaise of movie royalty. Warner), has been betrothed to a Princess Athalia. The kingdom has an heir and a spare and the spare, Prince Tonio (future Christ H.B. The kingdom of Bothalia has just completed a marriage contract with a neighboring state. If you’ll recall, that was where all the madness started. The Vagabond Prince takes a little more suspension of disbelief than usual as it is set in the Balkans. The United States was still six months away from joining the conflict and a good number of pictures simply chose to ignore the fact that the War to End All Wars was just an ocean away. The First World War was raging when The Vagabond Prince was released but you would never know it from the plot. Home Media Availability: Released on DVD.
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