1937
7.5 (53 votes)
1h 41m
Genres
Romance
Adventure
Drama
Production Companies
Selznick International Pictures
The Prisoner of Zenda
The most thrilling swordfight ever filmed...
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Producer: David O. Selznick
Screenplay: John L. Balderston
Writer: Edward E. Rose, Sidney Howard, Ben Hecht
Director: John Cromwell
Director of Photography: James Wong Howe, Bert Glennon
Top 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
Videos
Prisoner of Zenda (1937) Original trailer starring Ronald Coleman
