In this small Ruritanian nation the 18,000 amendment to their constitution has outlawed salami. Any cold cut over a 4% garlic content is deemed to be bad for you. But there's a smuggling operation of illegal salami going on in his country and King Ferdinand Munier has hired Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough to be his Untouchables and seek out and destroy the import of illegal salami.
But that's hard to do with Queen Leni Stengel having a taste for the stuff. She and her shadowy counselor Disputin with appropriate long black beard played by Francis McDonald are the ones ultimately behind the great salami import racket thumbing their nose at the Prohibition of salami.
When this very funny short subject came out America was finally getting rid of the biggest insanity we ever attempted as a country as Prohibition was finally repealed. Kickin' The Crown Around is a wonderful satire on our own national embarrassment in trying to legislate morality.
And that final scene when the illegal salami is found. Bobby Clark's last line is priceless.
But that's hard to do with Queen Leni Stengel having a taste for the stuff. She and her shadowy counselor Disputin with appropriate long black beard played by Francis McDonald are the ones ultimately behind the great salami import racket thumbing their nose at the Prohibition of salami.
When this very funny short subject came out America was finally getting rid of the biggest insanity we ever attempted as a country as Prohibition was finally repealed. Kickin' The Crown Around is a wonderful satire on our own national embarrassment in trying to legislate morality.
And that final scene when the illegal salami is found. Bobby Clark's last line is priceless.