His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by William Desmond Taylor. The film's screenplay was written by Julia Crawford Ivers who adapted her story from both Harry Leon Wilson's 1912 novel Bunker Bean and the novel's subsequent stage adaption, His Majesty Bunker Bean by Lee Wilson Dodd. The film stars Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, Jack McDonald, Frances Clanton, Peggy O'Connell, and Edythe Chapman. The film was released by Paramount Pictures on April 8, 1918.
Plot As described in a film magazine, through a clairvoyant Bunker Bean learns that in his various incarnations he has been Napoleon and Ramtah, an Egyptian king, and these facts spur him to greater things. He falls heir to some money and invests in stock which yields big returns and in a mummy of Ramtah, his first incarnation. He marries the daughter of his boss and, although at first afraid to face her parents, he summons the personages of his various incarnations to give him the strength to conquer and win them over.
Cast Jack Pickford as Bunker Bean Louise Huff as Breede's daughter Jack McDonald as Jim Breede Frances Clanton as Mrs. Wife Peggy O'Connell as Breede's oldest daughter Edythe Chapman as Older Mrs. Breede Jack Hoxie as The greatest pitcher Gustav von Seyffertitz as Professor Balthasar Edith M. Lessing as Countess Casanova
Preservation status The picture is lost.Progressive Silent Film List: His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1918) at silentera.com
Warner Brothers remade the film in 1925 starring Matt Moore. That film survives abridged or incomplete.Progressive Silent Film List: His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925) at silentera.com
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