The Vagabond King is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical operetta film photographed entirely in two-color Technicolor.

The play told the story of the real-life renegade French poet named François Villon.

The operetta is also titled The Vagabond King with music by Rudolph Friml and lyrics by Brian Hooker and W.H.

Despite being successful against the Burgundians, François Villon is sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him... Jeanette MacDonald is Katherine, the high-born girl whom Villon pines for, while Huguette, a tavern wench (Lillian Roth) gives up her life to save her beloved poet.

One nitrate Technicolor print did survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and it was restored and preserved in 1990.