Adventurous Knights Explained

Adventurous Knights
Director:Charles E. Roberts
Producer:William Berke
Starring:David Sharpe
Gertrude Messinger
Mary Kornman
Music:Lee Zahler
Cinematography:Robert E. Cline
Editing:Arthur A. Brooks
Studio:William Berke Productions
Distributor:Ajax Pictures
Runtime:56 minutes
Country:United States
Language:English

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.

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Notes and 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