The forces of liberal constitutional monarchism are again put to the test by plotting generals in this third film version of the Anthony Hope novel that introduced the word "Ruritania" to the lexicon. This time Granger steps into the boots of the profligate monarch and his honorable
British doppelganger previously portrayed by Lewis Stone in the 1922 silent and by Ronald Colman in the fondly remembered 1937 remake. Granger is an Englishman vacationing in the Balkan principality of Ruritania. He meets the king (Granger again), who is about to be crowned and married to princess
Kerr. There is a conspiracy in the works, though, as the king's brother (Douglas) plans to...
Released:
1952
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins