Actors: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Louis Calhern, Jane Greer, Lewis Stone, Robert Douglas, Robert Coote, Peter Brocco, Francis Pierlot, James Mason, Jay Adler, Eric Alden, Guy Bellis, Emilie Cabanne, Mary Carroll, Kathleen Freeman, John Goldsworthy, William Hazel, Thomas Browne Henry, George J. Lewis Directors: Richard Thorpe Writers: John L.Synopsis Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. And David Niven star in this swashbuckling adaptation of Anthony Hopes classic novel The Prisoner of Zenda. An Englishman (Colman) visiting a small Central European kingdom looks like a twin of that countrys crown prince-who is his distant cousin.Anthony Hope is the pen name of Anthony Hope Hawkins, born in London in l863, the son of a church minister. Louis Calhern.COMPILED BY : YUSNITA BINTI YUSOF SMK TAMAN NUSA DAMAI, PASIR GUDANGThe Prisoner of Zenda is one of the very best adventure books from this period it first appeared in 1894, and it has remained popular ever since then. Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V. IMDb Rating 7.0 2,809 votes. Original title The Prisoner of Zenda. The classic tale of a king and an everyman switching places.He passed away in 1933.Introduction to hero – Rudolf Rassendyll. After the success of “The Prisoner of Zenda”, he stopped practising law and concentrated on writing only. He was better known as Anthony Hope. Note on author : Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born in 1863.
Decides to go to Ruritania on his own. Rose asks him to go to Ruritania with Sir Jacob Borrodaile. Spoke German and English, swordsman & horseman. Rassendyll, studied in German university, travelled far. Rassendyll is invited to a hunting lodge. Finds out he looks like the king only difference is the beard. Meets Colonel Sapt, Fritz. Johann, Duke’s forest guard is surprised to see Rassendyll.Rassendyll takes a walk in the forest. Josef is ordered to guard him. King Rudolf V is left in cellar. Rassendyll agrees to do it.Rassendyll shaves and puts on uniform. Sapt suggests Rassendyll takes the place of the king. All fall asleep.All wake up except King Rudolf V. Rassendyll dines with Flavia & Michael by his side.Dinner successful Rassendyll not recognized. They leave for palace Princess Flavia says he is different. Rassendyll meets Princess Flavia in Cathedral. Old Town supports Duke Michael New Town, King Rudolf V. Welcomed grandly by army bands & bells.Streslau has ‘ Old Town’ and ‘New Town’. They take train to Strelsau. Introduction to Famous Six. They kill 3 of the horsemen.Rassendyll returns to the palace. On the way they see 8 horsemen going to bury Josef. They reach the lodge find Josef murdered, King missing.Sapt advises Rassendyll to return to Strelsau as King. 2 horsemen ride pass (Duke Michael & Max Holf). Fritz left to guard the King’s bedroom. Tells him that the King is in the Old Castle. She tells him that the Duke made her write the letter and soon 3 men will come to kill him. Meets Antoinette de Mauban. Rassendyll receives a letter asking him to come to a house in New Avenue. Flavia warns him of danger.Rassendyll learns that the King is in Zenda Castle. Fritz in love with Countess Helga Rassendyll meets Black Michael & three of the Famous Six. Flavia says she started loving him after the Coronation. Goes to dance says ‘ I love you’ to Flavia in garden. People of Ruritania angry wedding not fixed. He hits them with the table and escapes.Duke and the three leave for Zenda. He shields himself with a heavy iron tea table when they enter and start shooting. Rassendyll pretends to accept the offer. She learns that the ‘boar’ is actually Duke Michael and confesses her love to Rassendyll. Flavia receives the news of Rassendyll’s hunting trip with sadness. Sapt spreads the news that the King is going to hunt boars in the forest near Zenda. The rescue team comprises thirteen people. In Rassendyll’s heart, Love & Honour are already at war. Everyone cheers to see them together.Flavia gives Rassendyll a red rose. Sapt waiting near the Castle of Tarlenheim. He asks innkeeper’s daughter to arrange for Johann to meet him. Rassendyll plans to save the King by a trick. Michael will be visiting Rassendyll when he is better. Black Michael sends three of his Famous Six to meet Rassendyll. He tells that the King is imprisoned in the Castle, in the room at the end of the drawbridge. Rupert stabs Rassendyll with a dagger. Rupert of Hentzau offers a hundred thousand pounds from the Duke if Rassendyll agrees to leave Ruritania. Kills Max Holf, Johann’s brother. Tries to find the pipe that leads to the King’s room. Rassendyll sets out for Zenda Castle late at night. Princess Flavia visits Rassendyll. Bunny hop macro for razer blackwidow chromaRassendyll requests help from Rupert to save the King. Lauengram and Kaufstein killed.Rassendyll’s family are looking for him. He fights with Rupert Of Hentzau but the latter manages to escape. Windows 10 bluestacks compatibilityBids farewell to Princess Flavia and gives her a ring.Rassendyll swims to the drawbridge from the moat. Rassendyll plans to save the King before the wedding. Rassendyll gives Johann fifty thousand crowns to open the front door of the New Castle at two o’clock in the morning. Duke, Antoinette and Rupert quarrel. Rassendyll receives a note from Antoinette de Mauban to rescue her.Date of the royal wedding fixed in a fortnight’s time. Antoinette is crying frantically. Rupert jumps into the moat and swims to New Castle.Loud crash in Antoinette’s room. Rupert throws an empty bottle into the moat and starts to fire at the bottle. She threatens to jump into the moat.Duke is furious with Rupert. Rupert appears.The duke is dead. Rassendyll kills De Gautet, Bersonin and Detchard. Rupert strikes down Duke and Johann and escapes into the moat. He meets the King who is grateful to him for saving his life and throne. Princess rides to Zenda and finds out who the real King is.Rassendyll rests in Old Castle. News is sent to Strelsau that the King has gone to rescue a friend. Rupert tries to kill Rassendyll who is injured. Snatches a peasant girl’s horse. Rupert disappears into the forest. Travels to the Alps for a ‘ quiet holiday’. Rassendyll gets into train and leaves Ruritania.Rassendyll goes to Italy. Honour requires her to serve her country and marry the King. Princess loves Rassendyll, not the King. Rassendyll lives alone in a small house with sweet memories of Princess Flavia until his dying day. He rejects the job of being an ‘attache’ to Sir Jacob. Hears that Antoinette is living alone in Paris with memories of the Duke.Rassendyll is scolded by Rose for not writing the book. Background of ancient castles, country lodges, mountains and forest provide romantic allure and charm. The story takes place in Ruritania, a fictional country situated somewhere in central Europe, east of Germany and Austria, sometime in the 19th century. SETTING (Illustrations in Appendix 1 & 2 ) London -Paris - frontier of Ruritania - Zenda - Zenda Castle - inn - hunting lodge- Railway station of Zenda - Strelsau - Castle of Tarlenheim - Old Castle, New Castle, drawbridge, moat, forest - railway station of Ruritania - Italy -Alps Paris –London - village outside Ruritania.
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