The Prisoner of Zenda
(1937)

The most thrilling swordfight ever filmed...

Released: 1937-09-03

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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

as Major Rudolf Rassendyll / The Prisoner of Zenda

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Madeleine Carroll

as Princess Flavia

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

as Rupert of Hentzau

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Mary Astor

as Antoinette de Mauban

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C. Aubrey Smith

as Colonel Zapt

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David Niven

as Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim

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Raymond Massey

as Black Michael

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Montagu Love

as Detchard

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Philip Sleeman

as Albert von Lauengram

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Eleanor Wesselhoeft

as Frau Holf the Cook

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Torben Meyer

as Max the Butler

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Wilhelm von Brincken

as Krafstein (uncredited)

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Ben Webster

as Lord Topham (uncredited)

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Byron Foulger

as Johann (uncredited)

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Charles K. French

as Bishop (uncredited)

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