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.
Cast
Ronald Colman
Major Rudolf Rassendyll / The Prisoner of Zenda
Madeleine Carroll
Princess Flavia
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Rupert of Hentzau
Mary Astor
Antoinette de Mauban
C. Aubrey Smith
Colonel Zapt
David Niven
Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim
Raymond Massey
Black Michael
Montagu Love
Detchard
Philip Sleeman
Albert von Lauengram
Eleanor Wesselhoeft
Frau Holf the Cook
Torben Meyer
Max the Butler
Wilhelm von Brincken
Krafstein (uncredited)
Ben Webster
Lord Topham (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Johann (uncredited)
Charles K. French
Bishop (uncredited)
Crew
Casey Roberts
Interior Designer
John Cromwell
Director
George Cukor
Co-Director
W.S. Van Dyke
Co-Director
Edward E. Rose
Writer
Sidney Howard
Writer
Ben Hecht
Writer
Wells Root
Adaptation
John L. Balderston
Screenplay
Anthony Hope
Novel
James E. Newcom
Editor
James Wong Howe
Director of Photography
Bert Glennon
Director of Photography
Fred Spencer
Assistant Director
David O. Selznick
Producer
William H. Wright
Producer's Assistant
Ernest Dryden
Costume Design
Oscar Lagerstrom
Sound Recordist
Jack Cosgrove
Special Effects
John M. Nickolaus
Special Effects
Harry Redmond Jr.
Special Effects
Alfred Newman
Original Music Composer
Donald Ogden Stewart
Dialogue, Additional Dialogue
Sigvard Bernadotte
Technical Advisor
Fred Cavens
Stunts
Hal C. Kern
Supervising Editor
Russell Birdwell
Publicist
Lyle R. Wheeler
Art Direction
Hugo Friedhofer
Orchestrator
Edward B. Powell
Orchestrator
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