Adventurous Knights

1935 film
  • June 7, 1935 (1935-06-07)
Running time
56 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Adventurous Knights is a 1935 American comedy adventure film directed by Charles E. Roberts and starring David Sharpe, Gertrude Messinger and Mary Kornman.[1] It was parody reworking of The Prisoner of Zenda.[2] It was intended to be the first of six films featuring former Our Gang actors produced for Poverty Row studio Ajax Pictures, but only this and Roaring Roads were ever made.[3]

Plot

A successful American college athlete discovers that he is really the heir to the throne of a small Ruritanian European Kingdom. He travels there to take up his duties and see off a challenge from a pretender. He is appalled to discover that he has to marry a girl he has never seen before, without realizing he has met and fallen in love with her already.

Cast

  • David Sharpe as David De Portola
  • Gertrude Messinger as Princess Carmencita
  • Mary Kornman as Annette
  • Mickey Daniels as Mickey Daniels
  • Roger Williams as Black Prince
  • Eddie Phillips as Henchman
  • Al Thompson as Parkins - the Butler

References

  1. ^ Pitts p.126
  2. ^ Balio p.342
  3. ^ https://catalog.afi.com/Film/4395-ADVENTUROUS-KNIGHTS?sid=8be1fe44-d517-4474-bb14-306ebbdbe57a&sr=11.871593&cp=1&pos=0

Bibliography

  • Balio, Tino. Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939. University of California Press, 1995.
  • Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940. McFarland & Company, 1997.
  • Adventurous Knights at IMDb


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