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His Majesty, Bunker Bean
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by William D. Taylor (William Desmond Taylor)

Cast: Jack Pickford [Bunker Bean], Louise Huff [‘The Flapper’ Breede], Jack McDonald [Jim Breede], Francis Clanton [his wife], Peggy O’Connell [his oldest daughter], Edythe Chapman [Old Mrs. Breede], Hart Hoxie (Jack Hoxie) [the greatest pitcher], Gustav von Seyffertitz [Professor Balthasar], Edith M. Lessing [Countess Casanova]

The Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company production; distributed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation through Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Julia Crawford Ivers, from the novel Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson. Cinematography by Homer Scott. / © 7 March 1918 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP12184]. Released 8 April 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was subsequently filmed as His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925).

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 18 March 2012.

References: Website-AFI.