The Prisoner of Zenda 1937

The most thrilling swordfight ever filmed...

7.556 / 10   45 vote(s)
NR
Romance Adventure Drama

An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.

Release Date 1937-09-03
Runtime 1h 41m
Directors John Cromwell, James Wong Howe, Bert Glennon, W.S. Van Dyke, Fred Spencer, George Cukor
Producers David O. Selznick, William H. Wright
Writers Anthony Hope, Wells Root, John L. Balderston, Edward E. Rose, Ben Hecht, Sidney Howard, Donald Ogden Stewart

Ronald Coleman has good fun doubling up as both the dashing distant cousin and as the rather rakish King of Ruritania who faces intrigues and plots from a wonderful Raymond Massey and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. supported by a very young David Niven and the superbly loyal Sir C. Aubrey Smith. This is a great adventure story directed with skill and pace and it is a cracking watch.

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