The coronation is to be held the next day, and Rudolf tells Rassendyll about his enemy, his half-brother Michael, Duke of Strelsau, who wants the throne for himself. He invites Rassendyll to his hunting lodge nearby.Īt the hunting lodge, they talk, eat and drink long into the night. Rudolf is a jovial, carefree sort when he asks Rassendyll what the Englishman’s being doing and the reply is that, like their mutual ancestor, he’s guilty of “fishing in forbidden waters,” Rudolf’s very amused.
The king too comes along, and the mystery is cleared up: Rudolf V’s great-great-grandfather had gone to England and been up to some hanky-panky with Rassendyll’s great-great-grandmother, and ever since, every couple of generations, a Rassendyll is born with the features of the Ruritanian royal family.
Both are amazed at Rassendyll’s resemblance to the king. He is awakened by two of the king’s men, Colonel Sapt (Louis Calhern) and Fritz von Tarlenheim (Robert Coote). Rassendyll goes off to the province of Zenda to fish (completely disregarding a `Fishing prohibited’ sign), and dozes off. Rassendyll ignores the startled looks of the locals and he doesn’t notice the poster of the new king of Ruritania, who’s the spitting image of Rassendyll himself. Among those arriving is Rudolf Rassendyll (Stewart Granger), an Englishman who admits he’s here not for the coronation, but for a holiday-he wants to go trout fishing. Ruritania’s new king, Rudolf V, is to be crowned, and hordes of visitors are descending on Strelsau for the festivities. Sometime in the late 19th century, in a fictional country called Ruritania, a train stops by at the capital, Strelsau. So, without further ado, let’s begin with the story. And, best of all: not one Granger, but two: he’s in a double role here (well, one of the characters is hardly there, but still). When the film in question boasts of Deborah Kerr opposite Granger, lots of swordplay and palace intrigue, a magnificently villainous villain, and some very fancy costumes: my day is made. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.ĭescription above from the Wikipedia article Robert Douglas (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Like Robert Mitchum, Stewart Granger is one of those actors who just needs to be in a film for me to want to see it. He died from natural causes in Leucadia, Encinitas, California, aged 89. He was married twice, including the actress Dorothy Hyson (1914–1996) and Suzanne Weldon (1921–1995), fathering two children, Lucinda and Robert (Giles). He could portray the sinister, conniving rogue as easily as the forthright military officer. He was gently mannered with a well modulated speaking voice, who delivered his lines in clipped fashion. A year later he made his first appearance on stage in Many Waters at the Ambassadors Theatre and went into films the following year. He studied at RADA and made his screen debut at Bournemouth in 1927.
He was a successful stage and film actor, a television director and producer. Robert Douglas (9 November 1909 - 11 January 1999) was born as Robert Douglas Finlayson in Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire.
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