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The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) was a Adventure - Film Adaptation Film directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman.

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Rupert of Hentzau: [referring to the King] He's in a woodcutter's cabin. Oh, and by the way, royal blood is not blue as most people think. It's red. I know because I had to spill a little.


Rudolf Rassendyll: I was hoping that our skeleton was safe at home in our family cupboard.
Fritz von Tarlenheim: Some skeletons are prodigious travelers.


Rudolf Rassendyll: I know my clothes are a little conservative, but we English always dress as if we're going to a funeral when we're on a holiday.


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This version's music score is an adaptation of the one composed by Alfred Newman for the 1937 version.
The Ruritanian Royal Train seen briefly as Rassendyl and the others travel to Strelsau for the coronation is stock footage of the Salzkammergut Lokalbahn, a narrow-gauge railway in the Salzburg area of Austria, that closed in 1957.
The original New York production of The Prisoner of Zenda opened at the Lyceum Theater on September 4, 1895.
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