CAPITOL THEATRE
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY All the beauty, colour and swashbuckling adventure of the famous Anthony Hope romance comes to the screen of the Capitol Theatre today .when, the magnificent film production of the “Prisoner of Zenclit” begins with Ronald Colman, .Madeline Carroll and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. playing the leading roles. Coleman plays the dual role of King Rudolf V. and the adventurous Rassendy 11 in this tale of ; love and intrlgije among the courts of Europe, which John Cromwell directed from a screen-play which John L. Ralderston and Wells Root based on Edward Rose’s dramatization of the Anthony Hope novel. Miss Carroll plays the beautiful Princess Flavin, and young Fairbanks is seen as the dashing Rupert of Hentzau. Also prominently featured in the cast are Mary As tor, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey .and David. Niven. The 62 sets, ranging in size from a sentry box to a cathedral, are marvellous,while the costuming is the last word in beautiful creatons.
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Te Puke Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 63, 18 August 1939, Page 4
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