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While there, he is puzzled by the odd reactions of the natives to him. In June 1897, English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll (Granger) takes a fishing vacation in Ruritania, a small kingdom in the Balkans. The art direction was by Cedric Gibbons and Hans Peters and the costume design by Walter Plunkett. Īlfred Newman's 1937 music score was adapted by Conrad Salinger, since Newman was unavailable to work on the film and the cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. Balderston, adapted by Wells Root, from the Hope novel and the stage play by Edward Rose, with additional dialogue by Donald Ogden Stewart. The screenplay, attributed to Noel Langley, was nearly word-for-word identical to the one used in the 1937 Ronald Colman version, which was by John L. It stars Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, and James Mason (with Louis Calhern, Robert Douglas, Jane Greer and Robert Coote). This version was made by Loew's and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1952 Technicolor film version of the 1894 novel of the same name by Anthony Hope and a remake of the 1937 film version and the 1922 silent version as well. For the many other adaptations for film and television, see The Prisoner of Zenda (disambiguation). For the original 1894 novel, see The Prisoner of Zenda. For the 1937 film starring Ronald Colman on which it is based, see The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 film). This article is about the 1952 film starring Stewart Granger.