A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.

Stewart Granger
as Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V

Deborah Kerr
as Princess Flavia

James Mason
as Rupert of Hentzau

Louis Calhern
as Col. Zapt

Jane Greer
as Antoinette de Mauban

Lewis Stone
as The Cardinal

Robert Douglas
as Michael, Duke of Strelsau

Robert Coote
as Fritz von Tarlenheim

Peter Brocco
as Johann

Francis Pierlot
as Josef
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From Alfred Newman's opening music through the first ten minutes of this, it's pretty much a carbon copy of the 1937 version of Sir Anthony Hope's story. The only difference is that it's Stewart Granger playing the dashing "Rassendyll" who arrives in the European kingdom of Ruritania just as it's ki...