The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

6.8/10 • 118 min • Adventure Drama Family Fantasy

Overview

Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.

Cast

Errol Flynn

Miles Hendon

Claude Rains

Earl of Hertford

Henry Stephenson

Duke of Norfolk

Barton MacLane

John Canty

Billy Mauch

Tom Canty

Alan Hale

Captain of the Guard

Eric Portman

First Lord

Leonard Willey

Third Lord

Murray Kinnell

Hugo

Halliwell Hobbes

Archbishop

Phyllis Barry

Barmaid

Ivan F. Simpson

Clemens

Montagu Love

Henry VIII

Fritz Leiber

Father Andrew

Elspeth Dudgeon

Grandmother Canty

Forrester Harvey

Meaty Man

Joan Valerie

Lady Jane Seymour

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