Adventurous Knights

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Adventurous Knights
Directed by Charles E. Roberts
Written byDavid Sharpe
Charles E. Roberts
Produced by William Berke
Starring David Sharpe
Gertrude Messinger
Mary Kornman
Cinematography Robert E. Cline
Edited by Arthur A. Brooks
Music by Lee Zahler
Production
company
William Berke Productions
Distributed byAjax Pictures
Release date
  • June 7, 1935 (1935-06-07)
Running time
56 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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]

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Plot

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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