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The Prisoner of Zenda (1915)

The Prisoner of Zenda poster
Directed by
George Loane Tucker
Genre
silent film, adventure film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An Englishman who looks like the king of a small European country is asked to pretend to be him after the king is kidnapped. He has to deal with a power-hungry rival and win over the king's fiancee.

old-fashionedlight-heartedswashbucklingromanticfast-pacedtheatricalwhimsical

What happens

The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1915 British silent adventure film directed by George Loane Tucker and starring Henry Ainley, Jane Gail and Gerald Ames. Shot at Twickenham Studios, it is an adaptation of 1894 novel The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. A film based on the 1898 sequel Rupert of Hentzau was released shortly afterwards with the same director and cast. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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