The Princess Comes Across (1936)

  • NR
  • 05/22/1936 (US)
  • Comedy, Romance, Mystery, Thriller
  • 1h 16m

Those rollicking STARS of "HANDS ACROSS THE TABLE"

Overview

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.

Don Hartman

Screenplay

William K. Howard

Director

Philip MacDonald

Story

Francis Martin

Screenplay

Frank Butler

Screenplay

Walter DeLeon

Screenplay

Louis Lucien Rogger

Novel

J. B. Priestley

Writer

Claude Binyon

Writer

Cast

Carole Lombard's headshot

Carole Lombard

Princess Olga / Wanda Nash
Fred MacMurray's headshot

Fred MacMurray

King Mantell
Douglass Dumbrille's headshot

Douglass Dumbrille

Lorel
Alison Skipworth's headshot

Alison Skipworth

Lady Gertrude
George Barbier's headshot

George Barbier

Captain Nicholls
William Frawley's headshot

William Frawley

Benton
Porter Hall's headshot

Porter Hall

Darcy
Lumsden Hare's headshot

Lumsden Hare

Cragg

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