What I'd like to see is an new version of Prisoner of Zenda...not that I think we need a new one, mind you, the Ronald Colman version is terrific, but I find that many of my younger friends have never heard of it, which I find amazing. This movie was made over and over again in the early days. I think the latest version had Peter Sellers. It's strange that, in this day of a million reboots, no one is making one.
Really! I only just found out there was a novel. The movies been made at least 5 times, plus at least one cartoon version...it's just amazing that it suddenly fell off the radar.
I am surprised. I suggest you read it: Anthony Hope's novel would delight you, both because of its brilliant pace and invention and because of its chivalrous moral world. And it has an equally good follow-up, Rupert of Hentzau. Here is his Gutenberg page: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/h#a63
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Date: 2010-11-23 12:52 pm (UTC)It would make a good cartoon, too.
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