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.
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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)
John Cromwell
Director
W.S. Van Dyke
Co-Director
George Cukor
Co-Director
Ben Hecht
Writer
Sidney Howard
Writer
Edward E. Rose
Writer
John L. Balderston
Screenplay
Anthony Hope
Novel
David O. Selznick
Producer
James Wong Howe
Director of Photography
Bert Glennon
Director of Photography
Alfred Newman
Original Music Composer
James E. Newcom
Editor
Ernest Dryden
Costume Design
