The Prince and the Pauper (1920 film)

1920 film

The Prince and the Pauper

Directed by| Alexander Korda
Written by| Lajos Bíró
Based on| The Prince and the Pauper
1881 novel
by Mark Twain
Produced by| Alexander Kolowrat
Starring| Tibor Lubinszky
Albert Schreiber
Adolf Weisse
Franz Herterich
Edited by| Karl Hartl

Production
company

Sascha-Film

Distributed by| Sascha-Film
UFA (Germany)

Release date

* 19 November 1920 (1920-11-19)

Running time

| 75 minutes
Country| Austria
Languages| Silent
German intertitles

The Prince and the Pauper (German: Prinz und Bettelknabe) is a 1920 Austrian silent adventure film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Tibor Lubinszky, Albert Schreiber, and Adolf Weisse. It is based on Mark Twain's 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper about a poor boy who switches places with Edward, Prince of Wales in Tudor England.

For the first time in this Austrian film, a child actor, the Hungarian Tibor Lubinszky, who at eleven years old could already boast a respectable career in cinema, was called to play the double role of protagonist.[1]

## Production

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The film's producer Alexander Kolowrat wanted to emulate the spectacle of Italian costume epics, and was particularly inspired by two recent German films, Madame Dubarry (1919) and Anna Boleyn (1920) by Ernst Lubitsch.[2] It was Korda's first film after leaving his native Hungary and moving to Austria to work for Sascha-Film. He collaborated with the screenwriter Lajos Bíró, who had also been forced to leave Hungary, for the first time. They would later work on twenty three more films together.[3]

## Reception

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The film was largely praised on its release in Britain. Albert Schreiber's portrayal of Henry VIII was particularly praised for avoiding the buffoonery usually associated with the monarch.[4] The critical reception was also favourable in Austria, Germany and the United States. The film's American release was delayed due to a legal dispute with an American company which was also planning a film version of the novel. Once it was eventually released it proved to be a great success.[5]

The film's financial success in America inspired Korda towards his later ambitions to make "international films" which would have global market appeal, a strategy he put into place when working later in Britain which led to the worldwide success of his 1933 film The Private Life of Henry VIII.[6]

## Cast

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* Tibor Lubinszky as Prince Edward/Tom Canty
* Albert Schreiber as Henry VIII
* Adolf Weisse as Lord Chancellor
* Franz Herterich as John Canty
* Franz Everth as Miles Herndon
* Wilhelm Schmidt as Hugh Herndon
* Ditta Ninjan as Lady Edith
* Lilly Lubin as Isabel

## References

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1. ^ Holmstrom, John. "The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995", Norwich, Michael Russell, 15 July 1996, p. 38.
2. ^ Kulik p.29-30
3. ^ Kulik p.30
4. ^ Kulik p.30
5. ^ Kulik p.30-31
6. ^ Kulik p.31

## Bibliography

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* Kulik, Karol. Alexander Korda: The Man Who Could Work Miracles. Virgin Books, 1990.

## External links

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* The Prince and the Pauper at IMDb
* The Prince and the Pauper at AllMovie

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Films by Alexander Korda

As director|

* Watchhouse in the Carpathians (1914)
* The Duped Journalist (1914)
* Tutyu and Totyo (1914)
* Lyon Lea (1915)
* The Officer's Swordknot (1915)
* White Nights (1916)
* The Grandmother (1916)
* Tales of the Typewriter (1916)
* The Man with Two Hearts (1916)
* The One Million Pound Note (1916)
* Cyclamen (1916)
* Struggling Hearts (1916)
* The Laughing Saskia (1916)
* Miska the Magnate (1916)
* St. Peter's Umbrella (1917)
* The Stork Caliph (1917)
* Magic (1917)
* Harrison and Barrison (1917)
* Faun (1918)
* The Man with the Golden Touch (1918)
* Mary Ann (1918)
* Ave Caesar! (1919)
* White Rose (1919)
* Yamata (1919)
* Man of Gold (1919)
* Neither at Home or Abroad (1919)
* Number 111 (1919)
* The Prince and the Pauper (1920)
* Masters of the Sea (1922)
* A Vanished World (1922)
* Samson and Delilah (1922)
* The Unknown Tomorrow (1923)
* Everybody's Woman (1924)
* Tragedy in the House of Habsburg (1924)
* Dancing Mad (1925)
* Madame Wants No Children (1926)
* A Modern Dubarry (1927)
* The Stolen Bride (1927)
* The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)
* Yellow Lily (1928)
* Night Watch (1928)
* Love and the Devil (1929)
* The Squall (1929)
* Her Private Life (1929)
* Lilies of the Field (1930)
* Women Everywhere (1930)
* The Princess and the Plumber (1930)
* The Men Around Lucy (1931)
* Rive gauche (1931)
* Marius (1931)
* Longing for the Sea (1931)
* The Golden Anchor (1932)
* Service for Ladies (1932)
* Wedding Rehearsal (1932)
* The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
* La dame de chez Maxim's (1933)
* The Girl from Maxim's (1933)
* The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
* Rembrandt (1936)
* That Hamilton Woman (1941)
* Perfect Strangers (1945)
* An Ideal Husband (1947)

As producer only|

* Men of Tomorrow (1932)
* That Night in London (1932)
* Women Who Play (1932)
* Strange Evidence (1933)
* Counsel's Opinion (1933)
* Cash (1933)
* Catherine the Great (1934)
* The Private Life of the Gannets (1934) (short)
* The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
* Things Are Looking Up (1935)
* Sanders of the River (1935)
* The Ghost Goes West (1935)
* Things to Come (1936)
* I Stand Condemned (1936)
* Men Are Not Gods (1936)
* Forget Me Not (1936)
* The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
* Fire Over England (1937)
* I, Claudius (1937) (unfinished)
* Dark Journey (1937)
* Elephant Boy (1937)
* Farewell Again (1937)
* Storm in a Teacup (1937)
* Knight Without Armour (1937)
* The Squeaker (1937)
* Paradise for Two (1937)
* The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
* South Riding (1938)
* The Challenge (1938)
* Prison Without Bars (1938)
* Q Planes (1939)
* The Four Feathers (1939)
* The Rebel Son (1939)
* The Spy in Black (1939)
* The Lion Has Wings (1939)
* Over the Moon (1939)
* 21 Days (1940)
* Conquest of the Air (1940)
* The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
* Old Bill and Son (1941)
* Lydia (1941)
* To Be or Not to Be (1942)
* Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1942)
* The Shop at Sly Corner (1947)
* A Man About the House (1947)
* Mine Own Executioner (1947)
* Night Beat (1948)
* Anna Karenina (1948)
* The Winslow Boy (1948)
* The Fallen Idol (1948)
* Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
* That Dangerous Age (1949)
* The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949)
* Saints and Sinners (1949)
* The Third Man (1949)
* The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955)
* A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
* The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
* Storm Over the Nile (1955)
* Richard III (1955)
* Smiley (1956)

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Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper

Characters|

* Prince Edward Tudor
* Tom Canty

Films|

* The Prince and the Pauper (1915)
* The Prince and the Pauper (1920)
* The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
* Raju Peda (1954)
* Raja Aur Runk (1968)
* The Prince and the Pauper (1977)
* The Prince and the Surfer (1999)
* The Prince and the Pauper (2000)
* The Pooch and the Pauper (2000)
* Beethoven's 4th (2001)
* The Twins (2005)
* Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)
* A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper (2007)
* Frenemies (2012)
* I Am the King (2012)

Animated|

* The Prince and the Pauper (1990)
* "The Princess and the Pauper" (2000)
* Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King (2000)
* Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper (2004)
* "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" (2008)
* "Princess and the Popstar" (2011)
* Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (2012)

Related|

* List of adaptations
* Cultural depictions of Edward VI of England
* Coronation of Edward VI
* Jake & Blake
* Beggar Prince
* "The Shepherd"
* "The Principal and the Pauper"
* The Princess Switch

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