The Prisoner of Zenda
Romance
Adventure
Drama
The most thrilling swordfight ever filmed...
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.
1937-09-03
en
Cast
Director
John Cromwell
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
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)