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Missing, Believed Lost - My Friend the King

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From Missing, Believed Lost, BFI Publishing, 1992

The further adventures of Jerry Verno's Cockney cab driver from Two Crowded Hours. Once again he is involved in crime when a fare-paying passenger comes to harm. He arrives at a mansion where the young heir to the throne is living in style, attended by fancily attired servants. The boy and the cabbie become friends, and the latter dresses up as a demure countess to help foil a kidnap attempt by revolutionaries.

In Powell, Pressburger and Others (BFI, 1978), Michael Powell recalled: 'It was a very weak story about a little boy who was some foreign king staying in London and got kidnapped. I only remember it as a complete failure.' The Bioscope agreed: 'A better vehicle should have been devised for a comedian of such ability as Verno.'

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