His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1918 film)

His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by William Desmond Taylor.

The film's screenplay was written by Julia Crawford Ivers who adapted her story from both Harry Leon Wilson's 1912 novel Bunker Bean and the novel's subsequent stage adaption, His Majesty Bunker Bean by Lee Wilson Dodd.

[3][4][5] As described in a film magazine,[6] through a clairvoyant Bunker Bean (Pickford) learns that in his various incarnations he has been Napoleon and Ramtah, an Egyptian king, and these facts spur him to greater things.

He falls heir to some money and invests in stock which yields big returns and in a mummy of Ramtah, his first incarnation.

He marries the daughter of his boss and, although at first afraid to face her parents, he summons the personages of his various incarnations to give him the strength to conquer and win them over.