Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 3, 2020 10:02:21 GMT -8
The Prisoner of Zenda is a nice, relatively light, adventure tale from 1937. I rented in on Apple TV for $2.99. You don't have to be a subscriber to Apple TV to rent.
Ronald Colman stars in the old story of boy meets girl, girl is a future queen, boy looks exactly like the man who will soon be crowned king, the king is disabled by treachery, the boy has to take the place of the king, the boy falls in love with the future queen, and then things get a little complicated from there.
It’s a good cast which includes C. Aubrey Smith as the king’s most trusted man, David Niven as his aide, Madeleine boom-boom Carroll as Princess Flavia, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Raymond Massey as the heavies. Mary Astor has a minor role in this as well.
The buckles swash near the end with a de rigueur sword fight during one of the most amateurish assaults on a castle ever by a small band of rescuers. All in all, it’s good and charming fun and you certainly don’t have to think too hard.
In the trivia sections it says, “The film was made partly as a rebuke by director George Cukor to the Duke of Windsor for his recent abdication of duty in favour of love.” Yes, if so, a lovely rebuke indeed to that worm.
Ronald Colman stars in the old story of boy meets girl, girl is a future queen, boy looks exactly like the man who will soon be crowned king, the king is disabled by treachery, the boy has to take the place of the king, the boy falls in love with the future queen, and then things get a little complicated from there.
It’s a good cast which includes C. Aubrey Smith as the king’s most trusted man, David Niven as his aide, Madeleine boom-boom Carroll as Princess Flavia, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Raymond Massey as the heavies. Mary Astor has a minor role in this as well.
The buckles swash near the end with a de rigueur sword fight during one of the most amateurish assaults on a castle ever by a small band of rescuers. All in all, it’s good and charming fun and you certainly don’t have to think too hard.
In the trivia sections it says, “The film was made partly as a rebuke by director George Cukor to the Duke of Windsor for his recent abdication of duty in favour of love.” Yes, if so, a lovely rebuke indeed to that worm.
