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11 September 1922 (USA) morePlot:
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"While you're unhung, Rentzau, hell lacks its master" moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Lewis Stone | ... | Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf | |
| Alice Terry | ... | Princess Flavia | |
| Robert Edeson | ... | Colonel Sapt | |
| Stuart Holmes | ... | Grand Duke 'Black' Michael | |
| Ramon Novarro | ... | Rupert of Hentzau (as Ramon Samaniegos) | |
| Barbara La Marr | ... | Antoinette de Mauban | |
| Malcolm McGregor | ... | Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim | |
| Edward Connelly | ... | Marshal von Strakencz | |
| Lois Lee | ... | Countess Helga |
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113 min (Turner library print) | 125 min (22.3 fps)Country:
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1.33 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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USA:Not RatedMOVIEmeter: 
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'Anthony Hope' also collaborated with Edward E. Rose for a play, "The Prisoner of Zenda", which opened in New York City, New York, USA on 4 September 1895. moreGoofs:
Continuity: During the climactic fight scene, a stool is kicked over twice. moreSoundtrack:
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A retiring English country gentleman, Rassendyll, is mistaken for his distant cousin, King Rudolph of Ruritania. When the king is taken hostage by his jealous brother, Black Michael, Rassendyll agrees to act as the king in the coronation ceremony.
It takes a long time for this version of 'The Prisoner of Zenda' to get moving. The first hour or so is stodgy and less than riveting film-making, and then it gradually picks up momentum, and the last half hour packs a decent punch, especially action-wise. But all in all, a rather more lackluster, even crude entertainment than I had expected after the exhilarating 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse', also by Rex Ingram.
The script is largely at fault, with the scenes so disjointedly put together that it does not in long stretches make a lot of sense. It has the makings of some interesting psychological insights, but does not explore them. I would have made more - MUCH more - out of the fact that for a long while Black Michael seems a pretty decent fellow, genuinely in love with Antoinette and understandably preoccupied about leaving the fate of his country to his feeble-minded brother. But Ingram makes nothing of it and seems curiously uninspired.
The youngish Lewis Stone is an earnest Rassendyll/Rudolph, and sort of holds his own in the climactic sword-fight with, among others, Ramon Novarro. And now we are getting somewhere. This is Novarro's film. He was hardly a star when it was made, and his role does not take up a lot of screen time, but Novarro eats up the scenery with his monocled, slick diabolism. "While you're unhung, Rentzau, hell lacks its master!", Stone says, and right he is. Novarro is pure evil, and a delight to watch.