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...PRISONER OF ZENDA Directed by Richard Quine Screenplay by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
...exterior shots of a speeding train, were wrecked twice, once in a flood, once when an overpowered engine jumped the track. Script and casting problems were just as bad. One script ripped off Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train; another leaned very hard on The Prisoner of Zenda. In addition, most of Curtis' first-choice performers were unavailable so fast. Something eventually came of all the effort, but it scarcely seemed worth the money. Reviews were awful; ratings were as bad. In its last outing, Supertrain received only 19% of the audience...
After playing the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in five Pink Panther pictures, Peter Sellers is reveling in his role as the dashing playboy King of Ruritania in a new film version of Anthony Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda. "I rather enjoy being called Your Majesty all day," says Sellers. He is especially pleased at getting the royal treatment from his real-life wife, Lynne Frederick, 24, who co-stars in the film as the king's betrothed, Princess Flavia. So enamored is Sellers of his new cinematic self, a role made memorable by Ronald Colman...
...also practiced a form of positive thinking: "Almost all work is useless and meaningless," he tells himself, "and therefore the virtuous man will avoid working." To water these tender young suppositions further, so they can grow into a healthy prejudice, he quoted the opening lines of The Prisoner of Zenda: "'I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?' said my brother's wife. 'My dear Rose,' I answered, laying down my egg spoon, 'why in the world should I do anything?'" Soon Hills began disintegrating. His Rust...
...recently when Angelo, accompanying Mrs. Nixon's party, found herself locked in a hotel room in Yellowstone Park. With no phone, no response to her shouts and the press bus about to leave, she threw caution - and herself - to the winds: "Feeling like the prisoner of Zenda, I opened the window, forced the screen and jumped out. The room, happily, was on the first floor...