The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

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  • Genre: Romance, Adventure, Drama
  • Release Date: 1937-09-03
  • User Rating: 7.5/10 from 53 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 41min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Selznick International Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: John Cromwell
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Summary

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.

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  • Ronald Colman

    as Major Rudolf Rassendyll / The Prisoner of Zenda
  • Madeleine Carroll

    as Princess Flavia
  • Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

    as Rupert of Hentzau
  • Mary Astor

    as Antoinette de Mauban
  • C. Aubrey Smith

    as Colonel Zapt
  • David Niven

    as Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim
  • Raymond Massey

    as Black Michael
  • Montagu Love

    as Detchard
  • Philip Sleeman

    as Albert von Lauengram
  • Eleanor Wesselhoeft

    as Frau Holf the Cook
  • Torben Meyer

    as Max the Butler
  • Wilhelm von Brincken

    as Krafstein (uncredited)
  • Ben Webster

    as Lord Topham (uncredited)
  • Byron Foulger

    as Johann (uncredited)
  • Charles K. French

    as Bishop (uncredited)
Production David O. Selznick Producer
Writing John L. Balderston Screenplay
Writing Wells Root Adaptation
Crew Donald Ogden Stewart Additional Dialogue
Writing Edward E. Rose Writer
Directing John Cromwell Director
Writing Anthony Hope Novel
Camera Bert Glennon Director of Photography
Camera James Wong Howe Director of Photography
Editing James E. Newcom Editor
Art Lyle R. Wheeler Art Direction
Costume & Make-Up Ernest Dryden Costume Design
Directing Fred Spencer Assistant Director
Crew Fred Cavens Stunts
Crew Jack Cosgrove Special Effects
Writing Donald Ogden Stewart Dialogue
Directing George Cukor Co-Director
Writing Sidney Howard Writer
Editing Hal C. Kern Supervising Editor
Art Casey Roberts Interior Designer
Sound Hugo Friedhofer Orchestrator
Production Russell Birdwell Publicist
Sound Edward B. Powell Orchestrator
Production William H. Wright Producer's Assistant
Crew Harry Redmond Jr. Special Effects
Crew Sigvard Bernadotte Technical Advisor
Crew John M. Nickolaus Special Effects
Directing W.S. Van Dyke Co-Director
Sound Alfred Newman Original Music Composer
Writing Ben Hecht Writer
Sound Oscar Lagerstrom Sound Recordist

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