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The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) was a Adventure - Film Adaptation Film directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman.

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Rudolf Rassendyll: [when his life is threatened by Hentzau] Half my kingdom... for a match.
Rupert of Hentzau: Somebody once called fidelity the fading woman's greatest weapon, the charming woman's greatest hypocrisy, and you're very charming.
Rupert of Hentzau: I'm glad you stopped lying to me. I hate being lied to by women. They never did before. I always lied to them.
Rudolf Rassendyll: Well I think everything went off very well don't you? For a coronation. I mean, that is, not that a coronation shouldn't go well. Provided the king puts in an appearance suitably dressed and suitably rehearsed.
Princess Flavia: And suitably sober.
Rudolf Rassendyll: And suitably sober! Yes, I was hoping you would notice that.
Rudolf Rassendyll: I was hoping that our skeleton was safe at home in our family cupboard.
Fritz von Tarlenheim: Some skeletons are prodigious travelers.
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The Prisoner of Zenda Facts
The film used the same basic script that was written for the 1937 David O. Selznick film version, The Prisoner of Zenda, with Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll. Although many scenes and camera set-ups are exactly the same, there are notable differences.
The original New York production of The Prisoner of Zenda opened at the Lyceum Theater on September 4, 1895.
The Ruritanian Royal Train seen briefly as Rassendyl and the others travel to Strelsau for the coronation is stock footage of the Salzkammergut Lokalbahn, a narrow-gauge railway in the Salzburg area of Austria, that closed in 1957.
One of the changes from the 1937 version is changing the character of the Bishop to a Cardinal. Long-time MGM contract player Lewis Stone played the part. Ironically, Stone played both leads in the 1922 version of The Prisoner of Zenda.
This version's music score is an adaptation of the one composed by Alfred Newman for the 1937 version.
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