The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda
Release: 1937-09-03
·Runtime: 101m
·★ 7.5
Romance
Adventure
Drama
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Selznick International Pictures
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
as Rupert of Hentzau
Montagu Love
as Detchard
Philip Sleeman
as Albert von Lauengram
Ben Webster
as Lord Topham (uncredited)
Charles K. French
as Bishop (uncredited)
Madeleine Carroll
as Princess Flavia
Mary Astor
as Antoinette de Mauban
C. Aubrey Smith
as Colonel Zapt
David Niven
as Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim
Raymond Massey
as Black Michael
Wilhelm von Brincken
as Krafstein (uncredited)
Ronald Colman
as Major Rudolf Rassendyll / The Prisoner of Zenda
Byron Foulger
as Johann (uncredited)
Torben Meyer
as Max the Butler
Crew
Hugo Friedhofer
Orchestrator
Ben Hecht
Writer
George Cukor
Co-Director
Alfred Newman
Original Music Composer
W.S. Van Dyke
Co-Director
David O. Selznick
Producer
Anthony Hope
Novel
John L. Balderston
Screenplay
James Wong Howe
Director of Photography
John Cromwell
Director
Donald Ogden Stewart
Additional Dialogue, Dialogue