The Prisoner of Zenda, 1922

The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1922 silent adventure film, one of the many adaptations of Anthony Hope’s popular 1894 novel The Prisoner of Zenda and the subsequent 1896 play by Hope and Edward Rose.

Plot:
Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll (Lewis Stone) decides to pass the time by attending the coronation of his distant relation, King Rudolf V of Ruritania (also played by Stone) . He encounters an acquaintance on the train there, Antoinette de Mauban (Barbara La Marr), the mistress of the king’s treacherous brother, Grand Duke ‘Black’ Michael (Stuart Holmes).