Halliwell calls it “no match for the happy inspiration of the original”. Aubrey Smith, Colonel Zapt and David Niven. It was directed by John Cromwell and stars Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Raymond Massey, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., C. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) is considered the definitive version of the late Victorian novel. Film edits include The Prisoner of Zenda (1913), The Prisoner of Zenda (1915), and The Prisoner of Zenda (1922). Zenda (1963) was adapted from the 1925 Princess Flavia. Princess Flavia (1925) was an operetta with the score by Sigmund Romberg.
The novel has been adapted for film, stage, musical, operetta, radio, and television. An English gentleman is persuaded to act as his political decoy to save the interregnum. The Prisoner of Zenda is an 1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope.
