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The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
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8 May 1937 (USA) moreTagline:
Mark Twain's Immortal Classic !Plot:
Two lookalike boys, one a poor street kid and the other a prince, exchange places to see what the other's life is like. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Definitive version of much-filmed tale moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Errol Flynn | ... | Miles Hendon | |
| Claude Rains | ... | Earl of Hertford | |
| Henry Stephenson | ... | Duke of Norfolk | |
| Barton MacLane | ... | John Canty | |
| Billy Mauch | ... | Tom Canty (as The Mauch Twins) | |
| Robert J. Mauch | ... | Prince Edward (as The Mauch Twins) | |
| Alan Hale | ... | Captain of the Guard | |
| Eric Portman | ... | First Lord | |
| Lionel Pape | ... | Second Lord | |
| Leonard Willey | ... | Third Lord | |
| Murray Kinnell | ... | Hugo | |
| Halliwell Hobbes | ... | Archbishop | |
| Phyllis Barry | ... | Barmaid | |
| Ivan F. Simpson | ... | Clemens (as Ivan Simpson) | |
| Montagu Love | ... | Henry VIII |
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The coronation scene was on a set that duplicated Westminster Abbey and took seven days to shoot. moreGoofs:
Continuity: After the boys exchange roles, as the Prince (as Tom) goes out to get his dog at the stable he picks up a large candle, but when he comes out the door he no longer has it. moreQuotes:
[the boys are switching clothes - the prince holds up one of Tom's tattered garments]Prince Edward Tudor: Are there in any vermin in this?
Tom Canty: So few you'll hardly notice them at all, your highness.
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Watching a movie like this is like returning to a much-loved home: tattered townspeople with cor-blimey accents mingle in a suspiciously clean-looking olde-worlde England, bad guys wear their badness on their sleeve for everyone to see, and the screen is filled with reassuringly familiar character actors. Hollywood historical adventures of the thirties - you just can't go wrong.
The Mauch twins are so alike you tend to think you're watching one actor playing two parts, but, in today's effects-heavy climate, the decision to use twins rather than Freddie Bartholomew in a dual role (and no doubt utilizing split-screen techniques that would look distinctly dodgy today)can be seen to be a wise one.
Director Keighley maintains a brisk pace throughout, and elicits a suitably dashing performance from a young Errol Flynn who, although top-billed, does not appear until the film is nearly half over. If you're a fan of old movies you'll love this one, and if you're not you just might be converted.