Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and son of King Henry VIII. The two boys meet and decide to play a joke on the court by dressing in each other's clothes, but the plan goes awry when they're separated and each must live the other's life.
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Mark Lester
Prince Edward / Tom Canty
Oliver Reed
Miles Hendon
Charlton Heston
Henry VIII
David Hemmings
Hugh Hendon
Ernest Borgnine
John Canty
George C. Scott
The Ruffler
Harry Andrews
Hertford
Raquel Welch
Lady Edith
Rex Harrison
The Duke of Norfolk
Sybil Danning
Mother Canty
Director
Richard Fleischer
Screenplay
Pierre Spengler
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$8,000,000
Production
International Film Productions
Filipe Manuel Neto
September 19, 2022
**A very weak and uninteresting film, despite the constellation of great actors.** I am not a connoisseur of Mark Twain's work, so I was curious to read some things about the original story he wrote after a trip he made to the European continent. From what I've read on the internet about the story, I believe the movie does justice to the source material, but as I didn't get the story to read it...
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