(D’oh, I wrote this sometime this winter but it never escaped my drafts folder. Better late than never!)

Time for another round of movie classics everyone’s seen but me!

The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

The blueprint for innumerable impostor-proves-better-than-the-genuine-article stories, and a pretty good swashbuckler. First off, the cast is terrific. Ronald Colman is properly dry and English in a dual role as 1) a vacationer drawn into a murderous royal intrigue in the fictional kingdom of Ruritania ...