MGM apparently bought the remake rights, for in 1952 they remade it practically scene for scene and word for word, in Technicolor. Selznick production back when his literary adaptations were held in high esteem. The original The Prisoner of Zenda is the one Golden-Age classic of the set, a top drawer David O. Balderston, Noel Langley, Donald Ogden Stewart from a dramatization by Edward Rose from the novel by Anthony Hope
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Balderston, Donald Ogden Stewart from a dramatization by Edward Rose from the novel by Anthony Hopeġ952 / Color / 1:37 flat full frame / 96 min.Īrt Direction Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)ġ937 / B&W / 1:37 flat full frame / 101 min. And heck, in four out of six films, we get at least one good swordfight! Forester being listed with Charles Dickens and Herman Melville.
The movies aren't exclusively from classics, in the sense that I don't see C.S. The titles here probably led many viewers to go back and read the source novels. Warners' Literary Classics Collection takes the pain out of thick books by dead guys. I think he's now a retired Highway Patrolman. I remember a kid in high school who said he only wrote book reports when he could get the Classics Illustrated comic book version, and he wasn't kidding. The idea of being exposed to great works of literature through movies used to be the kiss of death for young male filmgoers - unless the story promised to have a few swordfights, or something else to deflect the boredom of kissing scenes and reams of dialogue. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 + 1952), The Three Musketeers, Madame Bovary, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Billy Budd