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The Princess Comes Across

The Princess Comes Across

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 22, 1936

Runtime

1h 16m

Genres

Comedy, Romance, Mystery, Thriller

User Score

61%

Original Title

The Princess Comes Across

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Director

William K. Howard

Description

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.