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The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Director: John Cromwell
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From Time Out Film Guide
Easily the best version of Anthony Hope's perennial Ruritanian adventure, often cited as one of the great swashbucklers. It's certainly impeccably cast, with Colman at his dashingly romantic best doubling as the King and the English lookalike who helps to save his throne, while Fairbanks revels in Rupert of Hentzau's charming villainy, Carroll provides a sweetly melting princess, and Massey is iconographically perfect as Black Michael the usurper. Lots of pomp and splendour (especially in the over-indulged Coronation sequence) make Cromwell's elegant direction incline to stateliness, but the swordplay is ripping and Wong Howe's camerawork superb.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: John Cromwell
Producer: David D Selznick
Cast: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, C Aubrey Smith, David Niven, Montagu Love full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 101 mins
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