Leo the Last

Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London townhouse for rest. With him are social-climber Margaret, to whom he is engaged, and Laszlo, who is planning a counter revolution which will restore Leo to the kingship of the monarchy. Leo is shocked to discover the once-exclusive neighborhood has degenerated into a ghetto inhabited mainly by poor Blacks on the brink of desperation. His nearest neighbors are the Mardi family and their beautiful daughter Salambo, who catches his eye as does her boyfriend, procurer Roscoe. Using the excuse of watching birds, he watches them closely through field glasses with the coolness and detachment of a scientist watching insects under a magnifying glass. When Salambo is forced to become a whore to keep her family together, Leo does something which he never thought he could do, despite the pleadings of Margaret and Laszlo, who has just about finished the steps toward the restoration.