The Prince and the Pauper( 1937)

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Mark Twain's Immortal Classic !

Overview

Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.

Top Billed Cast

Errol Flynn
Miles Hendon
Claude Rains
Earl of Hertford
Henry Stephenson
Duke of Norfolk
Barton MacLane
John Canty
Billy Mauch
Tom Canty
Robert J. Mauch
Prince Edward
Alan Hale
Captain of the Guard
Eric Portman
First Lord
Lionel Pape
Second Lord
Leonard Willey
Third Lord
Murray Kinnell
Hugo
Halliwell Hobbes
Archbishop
Phyllis Barry
Barmaid
Ivan F. Simpson
Clemens
Montagu Love
Henry VIII
Fritz Leiber
Father Andrew
Elspeth Dudgeon
Grandmother Canty
Mary Field
Mrs. Canty
Forrester Harvey
Meaty Man
Joan Valerie
Lady Jane Seymour
Lester Matthews
St. John
Robert Adair
First Guard
Harry Cording
Second Guard
Robert Warwick
Lord Warwick
Rex Evans
Rich Man
Holmes Herbert
First Doctor
Ian Maclaren
Second Doctor
Anne Howard
Lady Jane Grey
Gwendolyn Jones
Lady Elizabeth
Lionel Braham
Ruffler
Harry Beresford
The Watch
Lionel Belmore
Innkeeper
Ian Wolfe
Proprietor
William Ripley Dorr
Choir (as St. Luke's Choristers)
John George
Beggar
Eric Snowden
Cockney

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Jun 20 2022

So Henry VIII finally has his beloved son - the Prince Edward whom he protects at all costs. All the walls and guards, though, don't stop the wandering urchin "Tom Canty" from getting into his apartment. The two boys chat and decide it might be a bit of fun to swap clothes as the King is throwing a fancy dress party that night. Their roles now reversed, the wrong boy now comes a cropper at the hands of his own guards and is turfed out leaving "Tom" to fill some rather luxurious britches. Despite his protestations that he's not the Prince, he isn't believed - not even by his own ailing father (M...