His Royal Highness

George Wallace gets a job as a stagehand, but the man he replaces coshes him. George dreams he is the long-lost King of Betonia, a musical-comedy kingdom where his lower-class Aussie malapropisms and insistence that the Prime Minister roller skate clash with intrigue and a plot to put a pretender on the throne.

This vehicle for Wallace shows off his talents well, with a nice song-and-dance routine early on. It's an Australian talkie, and clearly made for the Australian market. His shtick wears a bit thin after a while, although there is a good poker routine to liven up the end. Over all, the movie remains a historical marker, more an example of a style of film (operetta) and performer (music hall) that has largely disappeared, than of cinema.