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Bookmark this pageThe Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
Director: Richard Quine
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From Time Out Film Guide
A limp and shoddy farce in which neither Sellers' lifeless double-role mugging, nor a dire fish-out-of-water script by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, encourage anything more than a deepening nostalgia for the straightfaced swashbuckling of previous adaptations of Anthony Hope's novel. Here the intrigues of Ruritanian royalty are conveyed with all the comic panache of an overlong Christmas variety show sketch on TV.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Richard Quine
Producer: Walter Mirisch
Cast: Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer, Gregory Sierra, Jeremy Kemp, Catherine Schell, Norman Rossington, John Laurie full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 108 mins
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