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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569795082
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, NTSC, Full Screen
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 06, 2007
Running Time: 201 minutes
Sales Rank: 5559
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 14, 1952
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Product Description:
Two versions of Anthony Hope's THE PRISONER OF ZENDA are brought to the screen here. The version from 1952 stars Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr while the 1937 adaptation features Ronald Colman in a dual role as dead ringers Rudolph Rassendyll a commoner and Rudolf V the crown prince of Ruritania.System Requirements:Running Time: 201 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 012569795082 Manufacturer No: 79508
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Rating:  - prisoner of zenda
I recommend this movie for anyone who is a fan of the golden age of
Hollywood, when stars were glamorous with real class and not trying
to top eachother with the biggest scandle on the cover of People magazine!
Stewart Granger is wonderful in his duel role, and deborah kerr is great
as the princess. And james mason is the ulimate villian, his role should have been bigger. I've loved this movie since was a kid, and I've read the
book several times. If you love action and romance the old fashioned way,
this movie is for you.
Rating: - Great Show
My Mom and I love this movie. It is great to see people acting the way they should instead of just out of love or infatuation. Duty is important. Responsibility is to be considered even when you are in love. Thanks for a great movie.
The movies are identical in dialog. Only the actors and color is different. Both are fun to watch.
Rating: - A Classic & Above-Average Copy
The Prisoner of Zenda 2 pack is a real treat for fans of the story & the films. Watching them side by side invites the inevitable comparisons and the 1952 version comes up way short. This is not a criticism of that film; rather it is an affirmation of how great the 1937 version is. The '52 entry is a shot-by-shot remake using the same script and much of
the same score but filmed in color. The action sequences are beefed up and the climactic sword duel is well-staged and goes on forever. The critical difference in the films is not necessarily the casting but the performances. In general the actors in the '52 film seem very histrionic and overwrought in many scenes while the performers in the earlier version are more subtle, nuanced, and ultimately more effective. The only performer in the second film that is not up to snuff is Jane Greer as Antoinette, who is awful. Deborah Kerr is hard to take as the virginal Flavia while Madeleine Carroll in the '37 film looks like she stepped out of a storybook. Raymond Massey, no stranger to chewing scenery, is perfectly sinister & tragic in the '37 film while Robert Douglas is just evil and unlikeable in the later version. In the lead role of Rudolph Stewart Granger is suave and certainly athletic but has an overwrought edge in tense scenes that could have used a more tongue-in-cheek flair. Ronald Colman is nothing short of brilliant in the earlier film in one of his signature roles. Perhaps the biggest gap of performance effectiveness is the actors ... Read More
Rating:  - prisoner of zenda
Extremely good - both versions but Ronald Coleman the better actor. Only differences in the two films were the actors and costumes. Dialogue exactly the same - makes one wonder why second film was made at all when the first was so very good. However, to compare performances was interesting and amusing.
Rating: - The two finest versions of Anthony Hope's classic adventure on one disc
David O. Selznick's 1937 version of Anthony Hope's oft-filmed and equally as oft-imitated warhorse The Prisoner of Zenda is often hailed as the best of many versions, and it's certainly a classic example of the genius of the Hollywood system in the Golden Age. With the plot so familiar even then - as with Gone With the Wind, Selznick was warned that the film would be a disaster, the producer betting successfully that the impending coronation of King Edward VII of Great Britain would create public interest for the Ruritanian romantic adventure - much of the strength is in the pitch perfect casting. Ronald Colman is a perfect Rudolf Rassendyl, charming, heroic and decent against all odds, the perfect gentleman but with a likeable sense of self-deprecating wit that keeps him from being remote or stuffy, though those are qualities that work against him as the uncrowned king a distant family scandal has left him the identical double of: he's not bad in his second role, but Colman never really did dissolute. Madeleine Carroll is the perfect princess and Mary Astor makes the most of the meatier role as the villain's mistress trying to save him (and her own place by his side) from his ambition. Raymond Massey's sneering looks and Old Testament disdain ensured that he never had to overexert himself to make a convincing villain as the illegitimate "Black" Michael, and he glowers splendidly here, though Douglas Fairbanks Jr. never quite gets the chances from the screenplay that he needs to outshine him as the more ... Read More
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