I'll Tell the World
Cast & Crew
Edward Sedgwick
Lee Tracy
Gloria Stuart
Roger Pryor
Onslow Stevens
Alec Francis
Film Details
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Synopsis
Stanley Brown, ace reporter for a news syndicate, is on a date when he receives a summons from Hardwick, his editor, to report to work and begin trailing Grand Duke Ferdinand, a visiting dignitary from Ruritania. After grudgingly following the duke through various accidents in America, Stanley ends up with him in Paris. At a health spa, Stanley disguises himself as a cripple so that his newspaper rival, William S. Briggs, who also has been sent to report on Ferdinand, will not recognize him. Stanley's ruse is exposed, however, when a girl accidentally crashes her bike into his wheelchair and introduces herself as Jane Hamilton of Baltimore. Jane and Stanley quickly fall in love with each other. Later, Ruritanian royalists hold a banquet in Vichy to celebrate the duke's birthday. Although both Stanley and Briggs are in attendance, neither one is aware that the real objective of the party is to plot a way to return Jane, who is really the deposed Princess Helen, to the Ruritanian throne. While Stanley romances Jane, the duke continues his plotting, which is soon discovered by Briggs. After Briggs scoops Stanley about Jane and Ferdinand, the two rivals agree to a truce. Stanley, however, immediately betrays the truce and takes a train to Grau, a village on the border of Ruritania where Jane and Ferdinand are staying with fellow conspirator, Count Strunsky. Aware of Jane's feelings for the American, the duke and Strunsky ask Stanley to persuade Jane to accept the crown. When Briggs then shows up in Grau, Stanley imprisons him and learns that Jane is engaged to her cousin, Prince Michael. Ever the reporter, Stanley rushes to wire the news but soon discovers that Briggs has sabotaged every means of communication in the town. Later, Michael arrives in Grau, but Jane shows no interest in becoming a queen. Strunsky then locks Stanley up with Briggs, and when the two attempt an escape together, Stanley again double-crosses his rival and flees alone. After Stanley learns that Strunsky actually is plotting to assassinate both Jane and Michael, Michael is stabbed to death by the count. Stanley finds Michael's body, wires the news back to his newspaper and then rescues an unsuspecting Jane as she heads for Ruritania. After returning to Grau, Stanley once again scoops Briggs, then makes plans to marry his princess.
Director
Edward Sedgwick
Cast
Lee Tracy
Gloria Stuart
Roger Pryor
Onslow Stevens
Alec Francis
Lawrence Grant
Herman Bing
Willard Robertson
Hugh Enfield
Dorothy Granger
Leon Waycoff
William Von Brincken
Edwin Mordant
Edward Mcwade
John Hyams
John Dilson
Gertrude W. Hoffman
Ward Bond
George La Plante
Alice Ardell
Claudett Reiter
Paul Weigel
Franklin Parker
Mrs. John Hyams
Julia Griffith
Fred Kelsey
Gertrude Bennett
Charles Fallon
Eugene Borden
Evelyn Selbie
Andre Cheron
Jerry Mandy
Charles Hill Mailes
Lloyd Ingraham
Arthur Stone
Walter Brennan
Crew
Jerome Ash
Ed Beranski
Wallace Chewning
Stanley Fleischer
Fred Frank
Roman Freulich
Arthur Gerstle
Jeff Gibbons
Charles D. Hall
Gilbert Kurland
Carl Laemmle Jr.
Daniel Mandell
Clarence Marks
Florence Mason
M. F. Murphy
Cora Palmatier
Maurice Pivar
Lincoln Quarberg
Ralph Spence
Dale Van Every
Dale Van Every
Frank Wead
Edward Woehler
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Notes
The Variety review notes that the series of accidents mentioned at the beginning of the plot were not seen on screen but were only referred to in the film's dialogue. New York Times states that the character of Stanley "locates a lost dirigible in the wastes of Northern Canada" during the picture. Hollywood Reporter production charts add Selmer Jackson to the cast, but his participation in the final film has not been confirmed. Motion Picture Herald lists Arthur Stone in the role of Otto, while the CBCS lists Walter Brennan. It is not known if one actor replaced the other, or if one of the actors appeared in the film as a different, unidentified character. Although not acknowledged in reviews or screen credits, the 1937 David L. Loew/RKO Radio Pictures release Fit for a King, which also was directed by Edward Sedgwick and starred Joe E. Brown, was a remake of this story . Most of the plot and character names are the same in both movies.
