The Runaway Princess

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The Runaway Princess
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Directed by
Written by
Based on Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth Russell
Produced by Harry Bruce Woolfe
Starring
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Distributed by Jury Metro-Goldwyn
Release dates
  • March 1929 (1929-03)(UK)
  • 15 April 1929 (1929-04-15)(Berlin)
Running time
7,053 feet
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
Languages

The Runaway Princess is a 1929 British-German silent drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and Fritz Wendhausen and starring Mady Christians, Fred Rains, Paul Cavanagh, and Anne Grey. [1]

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The film was a co-production between British Instructional Films and the German company Laender Film. It was made at Laenderfilm Studios in Berlin and Welwyn Studios in Hertfordshire. It was based on the 1905 novel Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Lady Elizabeth Russell. An alternative German-language version known as Priscillas Fahrt ins Glück was directed by Fritz Wendhausen.

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