The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda

101 mins | Drama, Adventure, Romance | Sept. 3, 1937

An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.

The Prisoner of Zenda

101 mins | Drama, Adventure, Romance | Sept. 3, 1937

The Prisoner of Zenda
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers United Artists, Selznick International Pictures
Original title The Prisoner of Zenda
Directors Fred Spencer, W.S. Van Dyke, John Cromwell, George Cukor
Writers Edward E. Rose, Wells Root, Anthony Hope, Donald Ogden Stewart, Sidney Howard, Ben Hecht, John L. Balderston

Cast

Ronald Colman

as Major Rudolf Rassendyll / The Prisoner of Zenda

Madeleine Carroll

as Princess Flavia

C. Aubrey Smith

as Colonel Zapt

Raymond Massey

as Black Michael

Mary Astor

as Antoinette de Mauban

David Niven

as Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

as Rupert of Hentzau

Montagu Love

as Detchard

Philip Sleeman

as Albert von Lauengram

Eleanor Wesselhoeft

as Frau Holf the Cook

Torben Meyer

as Max the Butler

Wilhelm von Brincken

as Krafstein (uncredited)

Ben Webster

as Lord Topham (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

as Johann (uncredited)

Charles K. French

as Bishop (uncredited)