A very funny sophisticated British comedy with a bit of Somerset Maugham attached, this won't tax the viewer because it's barely an hour. Edward Rigby is a delightful old codger, a British Charles Coburn, who seems to delight in mischief, quite amused upon returning from a trip to the south sea Islands with his butler (Henry Mollison) to discover that the Island princess (Mercy Haystead) has shanghaied herself in his trunks so she can be with Mollison whom she has fallen in love with.
It's hysterically funny as her presence is discovered, causing residents of the stuffy household to scream when they see her running around in a sarong. One of the relatives of Baron Rigby is a younger, more effected variation of Rex Harrison, snobby and curling his lip every time he speaks. The staff and other relatives are put off by the scandal this could cause because the princesses unseen father is declaring war on other local islands and is considering declaring war on England because he believes that Rigby kidnapped her.
Everything gets even sillier when the lovelorn princess creates a love potion intending to give to Mollison that gets mixed up and served to other guests. The princess has no way of realizing that customs of her Island are not acceptable in snooty Great Britain, and shows up for a banquet completely unclothed, obviously the custom of where she lives. Rigby is a a lot of fun to watch, the type of rich old coot who loves to see snooty and uptight aristocrats shocked. He steals the film very easily. Haystead however is nothing like any movie Island princess I've ever seen, and not a threat to either Dorothy Lamour or Maria Montez in taking away their princesses of the sarong.
It's hysterically funny as her presence is discovered, causing residents of the stuffy household to scream when they see her running around in a sarong. One of the relatives of Baron Rigby is a younger, more effected variation of Rex Harrison, snobby and curling his lip every time he speaks. The staff and other relatives are put off by the scandal this could cause because the princesses unseen father is declaring war on other local islands and is considering declaring war on England because he believes that Rigby kidnapped her.
Everything gets even sillier when the lovelorn princess creates a love potion intending to give to Mollison that gets mixed up and served to other guests. The princess has no way of realizing that customs of her Island are not acceptable in snooty Great Britain, and shows up for a banquet completely unclothed, obviously the custom of where she lives. Rigby is a a lot of fun to watch, the type of rich old coot who loves to see snooty and uptight aristocrats shocked. He steals the film very easily. Haystead however is nothing like any movie Island princess I've ever seen, and not a threat to either Dorothy Lamour or Maria Montez in taking away their princesses of the sarong.