#The prisoner of zenda 1937 cast movie

Blade Lock: Allows Rudolf and Rupert to exchange some choice taunts.Bittersweet Ending 'Heaven does not always make the right men kings.' Subverted in the 1979 version, where Rudolf replaces Rudolph as king of Ruritania and marries Flavia, and Rudolph goes off to London to play in the casinos and restaurants with his mistress.Becoming the Mask: Rassendyll becomes the role of king much more than the King does.The sweeping romantic score, supported by use of Wagnerian leitmotives, is by Alfred Newman. Aubrey Smith as the crusty, Macchiavellian Colonel Zapt, and David Niven (in his first major role) as the faithful though feckless Fritz von Tarlenheim lend sterling support. Raymond Massey as the saturnine and ambitious Duke Michael, Mary Astor as his beautiful but hapless mistress Antoinette de Mauban, C. The film stars Ronald Colman in the dual role of Rudolf Rassendyll, English gentleman, and Rudolph V, the ne'er-do-well king (the name is spelled both ways in the film) and co-stars Madeleine Carroll, as the lovely and lively Princess Flavia, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., as the wicked but engaging Count Rupert of Hentzau. Selznick production directed by John Cromwell. The most famous, however, is the 1937 David O.

#The prisoner of zenda 1937 cast movie

There were silent versions in 19 another silent version in 1922, starring Lewis Stone as Rudolf/Rudolph and Ramon Novarro as Rupert a 1952 version with Stewart Granger, James Mason, and Deborah Kerr a 1979 version starring Peter Sellers in one of his last roles and a TV movie version in 1984. There have been many film adaptations of the Anthony Hope novel The Prisoner of Zenda.