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]

Adventurous Knights
Directed byCharles E. Roberts
Written byDavid Sharpe
Charles E. Roberts
Produced byWilliam Berke
StarringDavid Sharpe
Gertrude Messinger
Mary Kornman
CinematographyRobert E. Cline
Edited byArthur A. Brooks
Music byLee Zahler
Production
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William Berke Productions
Distributed byAjax Pictures
Release date
  • June 7, 1935 (1935-06-07)
Running time
56 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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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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Bibliography

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  • Balio, Tino. Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939. University of California Press, 1995.
  • Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940. McFarland & Company, 1997.
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