
Leslie Halliwell puts it at #590 of all the films ever made, saying that the "splendid schoolboy adventure story" of the late Victorian novel is "perfectly transferred to the screen", and quotes a 1971 comment by John Cutts that the film becomes more "fascinating and beguiling" as time goes by. Of the many film adaptations, this is considered by many to be the definitive version. Selznick decided to produce the film, partly as a comment on the Edward VIII abdication crisis, and it was directed by John Cromwell. Aubrey Smith as Colonel Zapt and David Niven as Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)-Starring Ronald Colman as Rassendyll and Rudolph, Madeleine Carroll as Princess Flavia, Raymond Massey as Michael, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.Princess Flavia (1925), an operetta with the score by Sigmund Romberg.It was adapted by Mary O'Hara and directed by Rex Ingram. The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)-Starring Ramón Novarro, Lewis Stone, Alice Terry, Robert Edeson, Stuart Holmes, Malcolm McGregor and Barbara La Marr.

Courtney Rowden and directed by George Loane Tucker.

The novel has been adapted many times, mainly for film but also stage, musical, operetta, radio, and television.
