Ambassador Bill

Ambassador Bill

Ambassador Bill

Share

Ambassador Bill

"HE WILL SPLIT YOUR SIDES WITH LAUGHTER AND WRING YOUR HEART WITH TEARS"

1931

1h 9m

6.0(4 votes)

Comedy

Overview

An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.

Links & Resources

Social & External

Production Companies

Fox Film Corporation

Cast & Crew

24 members

Acting

Will Rogers

Bill Harper

Will Rogers

Acting

Marguerite Churchill

Queen Vanya

Marguerite Churchill

Acting

Greta Nissen

Countess Ilka

Greta Nissen

Acting

Tad Alexander

King Paul

Tad Alexander

Acting

Ray Milland

King Lothar

Ray Milland

Acting

Gustav von Seyffertitz

Prince de Polikoff

Gustav von Seyffertitz

Acting

Arnold Korff

The General

Arnold Korff

Acting

Ferdinand Munier

Senator Pillsbury

No Image

Acting

Edwin Maxwell

Monte

Edwin Maxwell

Acting

Frank Atkinson

American Embassy Valet

Frank Atkinson

Acting

Herbert Bunston

British Ambassador

Herbert Bunston

Acting

Georgia Caine

Monte's Wife

Georgia Caine

Acting

Carrie Daumery

Dinner Guest

Carrie Daumery

Acting

Theodore Lodi

French Ambassador

No Image

Acting

Michael Mark

Republican Revolutionary Sniper

Michael Mark

Acting

Eric Mayne

Dignitary at Court

Eric Mayne

Acting

Toshia Mori

Dinner Guest

Toshia Mori

Acting

Paul Panzer

Revolutionary

Paul Panzer

Acting

Lon Poff

Chauffeur

Lon Poff

Acting

Russ Powell

Drunk Republican Revolutionary Celebrant

Russ Powell

Acting

Tom Ricketts

Littleton

Tom Ricketts

Acting

Constantine Romanoff

Sniper on Balcony

Constantine Romanoff

Acting

Ben Turpin

The Butcher

Ben Turpin

Acting

Ernest Wood

Northfield Slater

No Image

Similar Movies

Farmer Al Falfa's Ape Girl

The Farmer is abducted by a capering Jungle Goddess. As pre-Code as a Terrytoon ever got. Most animation is by Frank Moser; with him are Art Babbitt, Jerry Shields, Bill Tytla and others.

Trouble in Paradise

Trouble in Paradise

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

Monkey Business

Monkey Business

Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

Horse Feathers

Horse Feathers

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.

Animal Crackers

Animal Crackers

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

Fast and Loose

Fast and Loose

A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

Goldie

Goldie

Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. Bill warns him against her, but Spike ignores the warning until he finds Bill's tatoo on Goldie as well.

The Thin Man

The Thin Man

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

42nd Street

42nd Street

A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.

Duck Soup

Duck Soup

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

The Man from Blankley's

The Man from Blankley's

When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.

Blondie of the Follies

Blondie of the Follies

New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goes awry when Lottie's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, falls for Blondie and she for him.

Platinum Blonde

Platinum Blonde

Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.

Reducing

Reducing

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

Carolina

Carolina

During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate, despite the objects of his temperamental father Bob Connelly.

Children of Pleasure

Children of Pleasure

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

Playing Around

Playing Around

New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.

Social Register

Social Register

Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama doesn't think that Patsy is worthy and sets out to prove it.

The Warrior's Husband

The Warrior's Husband

The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.

Recommended Movies

Platinum Blonde

Platinum Blonde

Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.

What's Love Got to Do with It?

What's Love Got to Do with It?

Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.

Mr. Bones

Mr. Bones

A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.

The Trouble with Angels

The Trouble with Angels

Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.

Cadet Kelly

Cadet Kelly

Hyperactive teenager Kelly is enrolled into a military school when her new stepfather becomes the Commandant. At first she has problems fitting in and taking orders until she tries out for the drill team.

Love Is in the Air

Love Is in the Air

A fiercely independent pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat starts to fall for the man sent by corporate to ground her operation forever.

Prom Pact

Prom Pact

It's prom season, and high school senior Mandy and her best friend and fellow outsider Ben are surrounded by over-the-top "promposals." Mandy is only focused on getting into her dream school Harvard, but as she starts tutoring basketball all-star Graham, she must re-evaluate whether her dream school is worth the cost of everything she believes in.

Watching the Detectives

Watching the Detectives

Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line between reality and the movies quickly begins to blur.

Adventures in Public School

Adventures in Public School

A socially-awkward, home-schooled kid forces his way into public school against his suffocating, but loving, mother's wishes.

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.

Good Advice

Good Advice

An investment banker loses everything and must discover what's really important in life.

Why Worry?

Why Worry?

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

Shanghaied

Shanghaied

A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.

The Errand Boy

The Errand Boy

Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.

Let's Make Love

Let's Make Love

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

Beau Hunks

Beau Hunks

Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.

Christmas with You

Christmas with You

Feeling career burnout, pop star Angelina escapes to grant a young fan's wish in small-town New York, where she not only finds the inspiration to revitalize her career but also a shot at true love.

Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story

Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story

The maniacal baby of the Griffin family, Stewie, meets his future self. In doing this he discovers that his future image is not what he has anticipated because of a near death experience.

LaRoy, Texas

LaRoy, Texas

Broke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRoy alive.

Beauty and the Billionaire

Beauty and the Billionaire

Addison travels with a picky billionaire as an assistant in her brother's place so he doesn't lose his job. She clashes with the billionaire until both start to see more in each other than they thought.