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About
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.
Theatrical
Sep 3, 1937
Box Office
$5.0M
Budget
$1.3M
Return
4.0x
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Studio
Selznick International Pictures
Keywords
based on novel or book
kidnapping
coronation
castle
orient express
villain
kingdom
heir to the throne
royalty
unrequited love
treason
mistaken identity
king
swashbuckler
sword duel
identity swap
power struggle
train travel
fictitious country
drawbridge
monarch
evil brother
planned coup
1890s
noble sacrifice
moat
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Cast
Full credits →R
Ronald Colman
Major Rudolf Rassendyll / The Prisoner of Zenda
M
Madeleine Carroll
Princess Flavia
D
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Rupert of Hentzau
M
Mary Astor
Antoinette de Mauban
C
C. Aubrey Smith
Colonel Zapt
D
David Niven
Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim
R
Raymond Massey
Black Michael
M
Montagu Love
Detchard
P
Philip Sleeman
Albert von Lauengram
E
Eleanor Wesselhoeft
Frau Holf the Cook
T
Torben Meyer
Max the Butler
W
Wilhelm von Brincken
Krafstein (uncredited)
B
Ben Webster
Lord Topham (uncredited)
B
Byron Foulger
Johann (uncredited)
C
Charles K. French
Bishop (uncredited)
