The Prisoner of Zenda

From Hollywood, the NBC Theater presents... ...the Guild Assignment, production the prisoner of Zenda, director John Cromwell, star Ronald Coleman. The NBC Theater presents the Screen Director's Guild Production of a Romantic Fiction. The prisoner of Zenda, with its original team of Screen Director John Cromwell, and Screen star Ronald Coleman, who co-stars tonight with Bonita Hume.

Some 22 years ago the new dimension of sound through the motion picture medium into a ferment. The call went out for experts in the spoken word and to Hollywood came a handful of seasoned stage directors. Many of them remained to devote the full sweep of their talent to motion picture directing, helping to

develop and establish the film medium we know today. Outstanding among these is our guest tonight, universally respected for his brilliant direction of such films as Anna and the King of Siam, the Enchanted Cottage, Night Song, and of course tonight's story, the President of Zenda.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. John Cromwell. Thank you very much. The prisoner of Zenda is a story you probably won't believe. That's part of its charm and the reason why it's one of my favorites. It represents the ultimate in the field of romantic adventure, a drama flavored with a fantastic equipped with all the delights of dark intrigue, high-spirited adventures, and beautiful princesses.

Here then is the prisoner of Zenda starring Ronald Coleman as Rudolf Razzendal and Benite Hume as the Princess Flavio. Let Rudolf Razzendal's own memoirs concerning his remarkable adventure speak for him. Rudolf Razzendal was an English country squire who found himself on this fateful day toward the close of the past century, dosing beside his fishing rod in the forest of Zenda, kingdom