''The Prince of Pilsen'' is a

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1926 American silent

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directed by Paul Powell and starring Anita Stewart and George Sidney.

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produced the film. It was based on a 1903 Broadway musical, ''The Prince of Pilsen'', by Frank S. Pixley and music by

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. The film was parodied by Mack Sennett that same year as ''The Prince of Pilsener''.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, Frederick, Prince of Pilsen, rebelling against his coming marriage with Princess Bertha of Thorwald, meets Hans Wagner, a brewer, and his daughter Nellie. The brewer, mistaking the prince for the son of a friend, asks him to join in a banquet. Hans becomes intoxicated, dresses up in a uniform, and is then mistaken by a coachman for the prince and brought to the palace. The real prince and the daughter start out in pursuit, but are waylaid by bandits. The marriage preparations at the palace are completed. Meanwhile, Hans is denounced as an imposter and it is ordered that he be shot. He is rescued in time by Frederick and his daughter Nellie. Princess Bertha, sensing the prince’s devotion to the young woman, releases him from his promise to wed her, and discovers that she has fallen in love with Hans, the brewer.

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