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From: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date: 19990612
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OF at least five filmings of the Anthony Hope novel, this 1937 version is the most famous and the best.

Ronald Colman , one of those great old-time actors with a distinctive Shakespearean voice, plays a dual role as the King of Ruritania and travelling Brit Rudolf Rassendyll, a fisherman with an uncanny resemblance to the king.

It's the resemblance that gets him into the king's castle for a private party the night before the coronation, when the alcoholic king drinks a cup of drugged wine.

It's all part of an insidious plan by the king's evil brother Michael and his ...

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