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An American banker helps an awkward Balkan prince romance a free-spirited cabaret dancer in this dreamlike silent trifle from Howard Hawks, which finds the director under the influence of F.W. Murnau and Ernst Lubitsch.
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Paid to Love (1927)
76 min
An American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank's money and shore up the country's weak economy in order to maximize the return on their investment. Towards that end he befriends the country's king and they come up with a scheme to get the Crown Prince married, a prospect not particularly appealing to the Crown Prince--until he sees the beautiful cabaret dancer the pair has picked for him to marry.