The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 & 1952) 2 disc edition (region 2)

Court followers foil a plot by having a British tourist pose as the king of Ruritania. Silent. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: January 1
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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(1937) This version is the standard for comparisons Remember Ronald Colman in Lost Horizon (1937)? Well, he made this movie in the same year. For those of you who may have missed the story, King Rudolf V, who is not the nicest person, is drugged out of the way. Because all Kings named Rudolf look like Ronald Colman, a vacationing Englishman who happens to be a long-lost cousin, he gets to substitute for the stability of the country and to foil the bad guys (his half-brother Michael, Duke of Strelsau (Raymond Massey)) from taking over. See Raymond Massey again in Things to Come (1936). So, the question is: what happened to the king? Do the bad guys win, or are they foiled? Who gets the girl? Who does the girl get? Moreover, why are you reading this when you can watch the movie? “Lost Horizon” with Ronald Colman “Hollywood Classics Collector’s Edition” – “Things to Come” ------- (1952) Right up there with the Ronald Colman version. Remember this pair (Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr) from “King Solomon's Mines” (1950)? Well, they did it again with “The Prisoner of Zenda” (1952). There is all the swordplay and loyalty of the first version, plus the interaction and reaction of Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr to add to this. For those of you who may have missed the story, King Rudolf V, who is not the nicest of people, is drugged out of the way. Because all Kings named Rudolf look like Stewart Granger, a vacationing Englishman who happens to be a long-lost cousin, he gets to substitute for the stability of the country and to foil the bad guys (his half-brother Michael, Duke of Strelsau (Robert Douglas)) from taking over. So, the question is: what happened to the king? Do the bad guys win, or are they foiled? Who gets the girl? Whom does the girl get? Moreover, why are you reading this when you can watch the movie?