The Princess Comes Across (1936) [NR]

Release Date:
May 22, 1936

Original Title:
The Princess Comes Across

Genres:
Comedy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Production Companies:
Paramount Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR 

Runtime: 76

Those rollicking STARS of "HANDS ACROSS THE TABLE"

A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.

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Art Direction:
Ernst Fegté
Hans Dreier

Assistant Director:
Harry Scott

Costume Design:
Travis Banton

Director:
William K. Howard

Director of Photography:
Ted Tetzlaff

Editor:
Paul Weatherwax

Electrician:
Earl Crowell

Executive Producer:
William LeBaron

Interior Designer:
A. E. Freudeman

Novel:
Louis Lucien Rogger

Original Music Composer:
John Leipold

Presenter:
Adolph Zukor

Producer:
Arthur Hornblow Jr.

Screenplay:
Francis Martin
Walter DeLeon
Don Hartman
Frank Butler

Script Supervisor:
Isobel Stuart

Songs:
Jack Scholl
Phil Boutelje

Sound Recordist:
Harold Lewis
Don Johnson

Story:
Philip MacDonald

Visual Effects:
Farciot Edouart
Dewey Wrigley

Writer:
Claude Binyon
J. B. Priestley

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