''His Majesty, Bunker Bean'' is a 1925 American silent

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directed by

Harry Beaumont Harry Beaumont (10 February 1888 – 22 December 1966) was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He worked for a variety of production companies including 20th Century Fox, Fox, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, Goldwyn, Metro Picture ...

and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, ''His Majesty, Bunker Bean'' by Lee Wilson Dodd, taken from a novel ''Bunker Bean'' by

Harry Leon Wilson Harry Leon Wilson (May 1, 1867 – June 28, 1939) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels ''Ruggles of Red Gap'' and '' Merton of the Movies''. Another of his works, ''Bunker Bean'', helped popularize the term "flapper". ...

. It was produced and distributed by

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Plot

As described in a film magazine review, Bunker Bean, who is the stenographer of Jim Breede, a millionaire, is an imaginative youth who is told by a

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that he is the

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of an Egyptian king. He tries to act the part of the king, and in so doing he fascinates his employer’s daughter Marie, who forces from him a promise to marry her. When Bunker learns that after all he is not the king’s reincarnation, he is so discouraged that he tells Marie he cannot marry her. His friend Bud Matthews encourages him, however, and all goes well until a fight starts on the day of the wedding. Bunker wins the fight. And he wins Marie’s father over by making him spend a large sum of money to secure some stock.

Cast

Box office

According to Warner Bros. records, the film earned $105,000 domestically and $25,000 in foreign markets.

Preservation status

An abridged or incomplete print survives. The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''His Majesty, Bunker Bean''
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* * 1925 films American silent feature films Films directed by Harry Beaumont Warner Bros. films American films based on plays Films based on American novels American black-and-white films Silent American comedy films 1925 comedy films 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-comedy-film-stub