Ronald Colman
Major Rudolf Rassendyll/The Prisoner of Zenda
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The Prisoner of Zenda, Inc., a 1996 television version, is set in the contemporary United States and revolves around a high school boy who is the heir to a large corporation. The writer, Rodman Gregg, was inspired by the 1937 film version. De speelgoedzaaier, a Spike and Suzy comic by Willy Vandersteen, is loosely based on The Prisoner of Zenda.
- Anthony Hope
- 1894
The Prisoner of Zenda: Directed by John Cromwell, W.S. Van Dyke. With Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey. An Englishman on a Ruritarian holiday must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped.
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- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- John Cromwell, W.S. Van Dyke
- 1937-09-03
The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1937 American black-and-white adventure film based on Anthony Hope 's 1894 novel of the same name and the 1896 play. A lookalike has to step in when his royal distant relative is kidnapped to prevent his coronation. This version is widely considered the best of the many film adaptations of the novel and play.
The Prisoner of Zenda: Directed by Richard Thorpe. With Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Louis Calhern. An Englishman vacationing in a Ruritarian kingdom is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king, after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.
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- Adventure, Mystery, Romance
- Richard Thorpe
- 1952-11-14
The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1952 American Technicolor adventure film version of the 1894 novel of the same name by Anthony Hope and a remake of the 1937 sound version and the 1922 silent. This first color version, made by Loew's and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman .
The Prisoner of Zenda is such a fun swashbuckling adventure. Well, it depends what you understand by the term. Hope opts for the Middle Ages version, with a tale of chivalry and chaste courtly love, that he blends with the age-old trope of mistaken identities, and sets it in the late 19th century.
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The Prisoner of Zenda: Being the History of Three Months in the Life of an English Gentleman was written by part-time lawyer Anthony Hope Hawkins in one month and published in 1894 under the name Anthony Hope. The novel, which sold more than 30,000 copies in Britain and the U.S., helped established the adventure genre further explored by such ...
