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However, the writing had all the ingredients to be funny but instead came across as forced(which is bad news for a spoof remake, which considering the source material was something I felt wasn't going to work in the first place), while the story as well as being sluggishly paced just lacks wit and thrills and the characters are rather cartoony(especially George Sierra). Not all is bad though, the film has gorgeous sets and costumes and is beautifully shot, and Henry Mancini's score is great as you would expect from the composer of the Pink Panther movies, Great Mouse Detective and Breakfast at Tiffanys.
How could it go wrong with Peter Sellers and Lionel Jeffries on board as well as composer Henry Mancini and script-writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais? Sadly, something did go wrong, and I am still puzzled as what the biggest problem was with this film. Strangelove" and you'll see him do this marvelously. Try watching "The Mouse That Roared" or "Dr. By the way, although it didn't work well here, Peter Sellers could be wonderful playing multiple roles in a movie.
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Plus the film too often relies on dopey humor and slapstick (such as the king's speech impediment and the exploding croquet ball). But the earlier versions were wonderful.and by comparison it is terrible.
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His advisors come up with a plan to save him.to have an identical looking cab driver pretend to be the king! The problem with "The Prisoner of Zenda" is not that it's 's actually watchable. And, enemies of the new king are out to destroy him. Now, the dead king's foolish and dissolute son is to become the new ruler of Ruritania (also Sellers). The story is supposed to be a humorous version of the classic story.and it's obvious this is the case in the silly opening scene where the elderly king (Sellers) falls to his death while ballooning.
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Apparently, Sellers or his agent had a hard time picking decent movie projects. Fu Manchu".two painfully unfunny pictures which make you wonder why he agreed to make them in the first place. The wonderful film he made about this time was "Being There" and the disappointments were this movie as well as "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Like many of Peter Sellers' films (especially late in his career), for every wonderful movie he made, he made at least a couple disappointing failures. And, in hindsight, this probably was a bad idea (see the IMDB trivia if you don't believe me). And, considering how good the 1922, 19 versions were, it's amazing that they'd think to remake it yet again in 1979. "The Prisoner of Zenda" has been made and re-made many times.
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