Director John Cromwell brings Anthony Hope's most famous novel to the big screen. Intrigue abounds as Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll (Ronald Colman) poses as his nobleman cousin, King Rudolf, who's been abducted. The goal is to keep the king's disappearance hushed until he can be rescued, but Rassendyll's growing infatuation with a fellow royal (Madeleine Carroll), among other entanglements, threatens to foil the already complex plans.