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The first talkie version of Mark Twain's fanciful novel of mistaken identity, in which a beggar-boy swaps places with a royal prince. Errol Flynn plays the soldier of fortune who comes to their rescue. Real-life twins Billy and Bobby Mauch play the boys.

Keywords:

Adventure, Drama, Family, Based-on-Novel, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(Black and white) (1937) (USA) (4 Star)

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

Supporting Cast:

Alan Hale Jr.	.... 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

Directors:

William Keighley

Writers:

Mark Twain
Laird Doyle

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