Someone in India is deciphering secret codes and passing information from London's Downing Street to the natives, so Captain Robert Kent comes down from London to investigate. He disguises himself as a Rajah, and Colonel Wentworth introduces him to the colony.
Acting
Karloff's silent-era villainy before Frankenstein made him immortal.
Production
Hollywood's finest cardboard maharajah palaces and questionable turbans.
Director
Edward José
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Boris Karloff's twenty-seventh film role; he wouldn't play Frankenstein's monster until 1931, spending the 1920s as Hollywood's go-to ethnic villain-of-the-week.
The 'Maharajah' trope peaked in this era as Hollywood exploited British anxieties about Indian independence movements—films like this essentially functioned as imperialist comfort food.
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