

The Prisoner of Zenda
A Swashbuckling Adventure In The Grand Style!
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.7M
- Box office
- $5.6M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- kingdom
- heir to the throne
- mistaken identity
- remake
- royalty
- identity swap
- fictitious country
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)NRNew York City, New York4 Nov 1952
- TheatricalNR14 Nov 1952
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU8 Jan 1953
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The Prisoner of Zenda was released on 4 November 1952.
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CinemaSerf
9/9/2022
From Alfred Newman's opening music through the first ten minutes of this, it's pretty much a carbon copy of the 1937 version of Sir Anthony Hope's story. The only difference is that it's Stewart Granger playing the dashing "Rassendyll" who arrives in the European kingdom of Ruritania just as it's king is to be crowned. He's puzzled by his welcome but a walk in the forest soon makes the reasons for that clear when he …
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