The Prince and the Pauper
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Time Out says
Produced under the same flag of convenience as the Salkinds had employed for their earlier pair of Dick Lester Three Musketeers films, this hid its status as a redundant remake (of a Warners/Errol Flynn romp of 1937, which cast genuine twins in the double-lead role) under the title Crossed Swords in America. Fleischer's anonymous direction and Mark Lester's lack of range (as the urchin/prince lookalikes) throw the weight of Mark Twain's cross-cut yarn of confused identities onto a series of lumbering star cameos (Heston as Henry VIII, Scott as a Cockney villain, etc). Princely sets, but a debilitating poverty of wit and imagination.Author: PT
Release details
UK release:
1977
Duration:
121 mins
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Director:
Cast:
Murray Melvin, Harry Andrews, Charlton Heston, David Hemmings, Rex Harrison, George C Scott, Ernest Borgnine, Mark Lester, Raquel Welch, Oliver Reed, Sybil Danning
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