Ein König im Exil

The surviving reels of CONFESSIONS OF A QUEEN do not suggest some lost masterpiece, but they do seem to indicate this was melodramatic fluff of the highest order. Jazz Age Hollywood was fascinated by the inherent drama of the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Romanovs. The complicated history and political reality behind it, not so much. This film is more interested in the romantic lives of the royals and the revolution seems to only be a deciding factor in the love triangle between the lovely Alice Terry (in one of her few appearances in a film not directed by her husband Rex Ingram), Lewis Stone, and John Bowers.