![]() ![]() ![]() When compelled by Leopold II (Lowell Sherman) to offer his services, Christian demands a high price in gold and the hand of the Archduchess Maria Luisa (Marian Nixon), when he overhears court gossip saying the Emperor forbid his sister to meet General Crack as she could never meet his mother!! Back at his headquarters and within the deadline of 3 days, the Emperor agrees to GENERAL CRACK's terms. ![]() This has a great part for the young boy (played by Philippe De Lacy who also played the young Don Juan age 10 with Barrymore) as he gets to slap Barrymore's face!! Twenty years later, Prince Christian is a powerful leader, a soldier of fortune and known as GENERAL CRACK (BARRYMORE). The film's prologue has the Duke of Kurland (JB must have loved this part as he gets made up to be old!) holding a banquet for his officers and is bemoaning his lack of an heir when a ragged boy enters the hall and identifies himself as Christian, the duke's son by a gypsy princess now dead. ![]()
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