The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)




Madeleine Carroll, Ronald Colman - The Prisoner of Zenda

Madeleine Carroll - The Prisoner of Zenda

Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ronald Colman - The Prisoner of Zenda


Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - The Prisoner of Zenda




An Englishman on a Ruritarian holiday must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped.


Film programs

Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 1486

Books with substantial mentioning of The Prisoner of Zenda

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Neil Sinyard
Classic Movies
London, 1993

Tony Thomas
The Great Adventure Films
Secaucus, NJ, 1980

William K. Everson
Love in the Film
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Prisoner of Zenda

Alain Silver, James Wong Howe (1899-1976), in: Robert Porfirio, Alain Silver and James Ursini (eds.), Film noir reader 3, New York, 2002