And to make matters worse Rassendyll finds himself falling for Princess Flavia (Deborah Kerr), Prince Rudolph's intended.Īs of writing this 1952 version of "The Prisoner of Zenda" is the 4th adaptation of the Anthony Hope novel with a fifth coming a few decades later. With Rassendyll agreeing to pretend to be the Prince so that the coronation can go ahead not only does the Prince's brother kidnap the real Prince but threatens to make the duplicity which has been going on public. But there is a snake in the royal household as the Prince's brother, Michael (Robert Douglas), poisons him on the eve of his coronation as he desires to be King. When British tourist Rudolph Rassendyll (Stewart Granger) arrives in Ruritania he takes many by surprise as he is a dead ringer for Prince Rudolph (Stewart Granger) who in a matter of days is due to be crowned King.
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