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If you were Rudolph Rassendo of the famous English family of Rassendo's and were bent on having a holiday in this picture book kingdom, you'd get off in the province of Xander. You read the sign which said province of Xander, royal hunting and fishing preserved, trespassing forbidden by order of His Majesty the King. Being Rudolph Rassendo, you'd pick the choicest waters, fish to your heart's content, and then lie on a grassy bank and fall asleep. You'd hardly know or care that two of the King's henchmen were bending over you in astonishment and alarm. Hmm, remarkable resemblance. Shave him and he'd be the King. It is incredible. He's awake. So, may I ask your name? You started as gentlemen. Suppose you give me the lead in the matter of names. This is Colonel Zapp, and I am called Fritz von Tarlentheim. We are both in the service of His Majesty the King. Well, I am Rudolph Rassendo traveling from England and not so long ago in the service of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Rassendo? Then we are all brethren of the sword. Rassendo, by heaven, your face betrays you, sir. You know the story, of course. Oh, I heard something of it. Where are you? Here, Your Majesty. Confounded, I thought I'd lost you. I, uh, Colonel Fritz, who is this gentleman? He's by way of being a relative of yours, sir. Relative? I don't understand. Well, it is something for which you cannot entirely blame me, Your Majesty. Well, then who is to blame? Well, if I may hazard a guess, Your Majesty, I would say that the blame might lie equally between your great-great-great-grandfather Rudolph and my great-great-great-grandmother Amelia. What? Right, by heaven, demands a Rassendo from England. And since Amelia's time sire, the Elfbird face crops out on one of us every now and then. Oh, I see. Well, well, Metcousin, you must forgive me if I was unduly surprised. It's too early in the day for a man to see double, eh, Fritz? Confounded, sir, it's not every day a man meets his double face to face. Well, what are you doing here, Cousin? Tell me, what are your plans? No plans, sire, but to fish. Oh, but you must come to my coronation tomorrow. I'd give a thousand crowns for the sight of my brother Michael's face when he sees the pair of us. And another thousand crowns, I'd wager, that he couldn't tell us apart. But, of course, you don't know my brother Michael. I'm afraid, sire, I haven't had that honor. Sire, I questioned the wisdom of Mr. Rassendo is going to filth out tomorrow. He mustn't go. Come, gentlemen, I have not said he is to go. Sire, I shall leave the country immediately since your advisors think it is advisable. No, by thunder, you shunt. You must stay at my hunting lodge. Our train for the coronation, sire, is to be ready at seven in the morning. Very well. Since Zapp won't let you see our coronation, Cousin Rudolph, we shall do our best to make up for it on the night before. Come, sir, I think you will find our table adequate and wine cellar somewhat inexhaustible. Wake up! Wake up! Quickly! What's the joke? This is no joke, Englishman. Oh, it was quite an evening, wasn't it? Oh, is Majesty still asleep? Yes, asleep. What happened? Your sire, the serpent, found him on the floor this morning. You didn't drink any of that last bottle? Not that I know of, though, my head. I think you'd know it if you had. Why, was it drunk? It was. Well, have you had a doctor? None within ten miles. But a thousand doctors wouldn't take him to Strauss out a day. Oh, I know the look of it. He'll not move for six or seven hours yet. But I remember laughing at a joke His Majesty told, and then I sat down here, and I suppose I went fast asleep. You know, I'm not much of a wine drinker. His Majesty is. You missed the drug bottle. But who could have won? Michael, his half-brother. He wants the throne. But the coronation today. There isn't going to be a coronation. Well, can't they postpone it? Can't you send word he's ill? Oh, they know his illness too well. He's been ill before. Michael is waiting in Strauss out now with half the army already on his side and half the people too. It's the moment he's been waiting for, planning for, counting on the king's weakness. Yes. Yes, Colonel, what's the matter? Englishman, I am much older than you. As a man grows old, he comes to believe in fate. And fate sent you here. And fate sends you now to Strauss out. What? Sounds mad, doesn't it? But without your beard, I'd wager you could deceive your own brother. You must be out of your mind. Ah, it's a risk. Against a certainty. My dear Colonel Zapp, I'm a simple Englishman. I couldn't even begin to act like a king, even if I tried. I'm afraid not, gentlemen. Then Black Michael sits tonight on the throne and the king lies in prison or his grave. Well, after all, it would only be for today, wouldn't it? Tonight you shall be safely across the border. King for a day. And what would it mean if I fail? Your life and mine. And Fritz is here. Confounded. I've become awfully fond of this beard. Rassendoll, your hand. Good. We'll have Joseph shave you. And then you must dress immediately in the king's dress uniform. Take that picture of him as your guide. Right. And as for his majesty, God keep him. Joseph will guard him with his life. I, Rudolph, with justice and mercy to deal sovereignty, to guard with vigilance and honor the welfare of my people, from all enemies to defend them, and from the throne of my ancestors to bear faithful rule. All this, do I swear? I thought everything went off very well, didn't you, Princess Flavia? That is, for a coronation. That is, I mean to say, a coronation should go off well if the king puts in an appearance. Properly dressed, knowing his line. And sober. Oh, that's a nasty one. I think you might overlook my past behavior and unbend a little. Don't the people want to see how well we get on together since we are to be married? Why should we deceive them? You know, I think the luckiest man in the world is the king of this country. Really? You have always seen the preferred parents. Now, but now I'm the anointed and crowned king. New leaf and all that. I have rather neglected you, haven't I? Two picture postcards in three years. Yeah, that was pretty silly, wasn't it? Stay away from you so long, and all the time you were changing into the loveliest princess in Europe. No? No, the loveliest girl in Europe. Your dynastic obligation to the princess royal doesn't compare you to say nice things to her in private. You call this private, riding along the boulevard in a carriage? I must indeed have changed since you saw me. I've been thinking the same about you. You rarely looked and acted like a king today. Oh, thank you. Something I confess, few of us expected of you. Oh, well, you see, when I looked at you, it seemed time for this king to settle down and try to live up to me, the future queen. Now, I think all this ceremony has gone to your head, little cousin. I go fishing. I'm crowned king. I meet the loveliest, the most beautiful. Your Majesty, this is the palace. We are expected to leave the carriage and enter the palace. You, to go to the balcony and greet your subjects. Yeah, I think the crowd expects us to get married quite soon. And I think they have there what I consider to be a marvelous idea. Your hand, princess. I think, Your Majesty, you should receive your minister. Oh, bother my ministers. I want to talk to you. You were saying? Very well, then. I was asking you what the world outside was really like. Is it as wicked and exciting as it seems in novels? And what did you do on those long trips? I mean, when you weren't drinking. Well, I used to go fishing. Fishing? You used to tell me you despised fishing. Oh, well, I grew out of that. Whooping a fine stream after a big fellow who jumps and laughs at you. Oh, fly fishing. I've never got beyond the hook and worms day. And speaking of worms, do you remember the day you dropped a caterpillar down my back? Oh, what a dreadful young thing you were. What's that? Who's there? Sire? Well, His Highness Duke Michael is waiting to pay his respects, sir. Forgive me, my dear, for deserting you then. I shall make the audience as short as possible. My princess, will you be waiting? Your Majesty, I shall be waiting. I shall be counting the seconds until I can return. Rassendl? Colonel Zappt, what's the matter? Don't go in there yet. Colonel, I'm the king and my ministers are waiting, including my half-brother, Michael. Wait. This is nothing to joke about. We plan to leave at once and bring back His Majesty by daylight. Yes. That devil Rupert of Hensal, Michael's lieutenant, found the king at the lodge. His men murdered Joseph and the guard and kidnapped the king. Oh, well, that is all over. They know everything. They know everything, but they can't speak. How can they denounce us without announcing themselves? That still won't keep them from murdering the king. With you on the throne, they won't dare. If they do, they're finished. They can kill him and leave you on the throne. Oh, it's too much to ask. Nobody could carry on this masquerade. I've tried to help you all I can, but I'm also not a fool. Yes, I suppose you're right. But I have a feeling about my king, about the crown. I feel about it the way another man would feel well about his children or the woman he loved. He would hate to leave her to her fate without making a fight. What fate? Whose fate? Can you ask that of a soldier whose king is kidnapped? Perhaps murdered? You know whom I mean. Oh, the princess Flavia. With the king dead, Michael as regent will declare her the queen. After that, of course, he'll marry her. 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Brush your teeth regularly with squib dental cream, one of the great family of squib products. Taste, feel, and see the refreshing difference. Use squib dental cream. Before we bring you part two of The Prisoner of Zenda, we want to thank David O. Selznick Productions for making this story available. David O. Selznick Productions are also producers of the Technicolor picture, Duel in the Sun. And now the House of Squib presents part two of Academy Awards, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Virginia Bruce in The Prisoner of Zenda. Your Majesty. Fritz, what is it? Michael's man's here. Can't prove what a fence are. That villain tell him his Majesty's indisposed. No, we'll hear what he has to say. Send him in. But disarm him. Farewell. Send him in. His Majesty will see him. Your Majesty, I bring your brother's humble greetings. And I also bring you an offer. From Michael? Yes. He offers you money. Oh, how much? I prefer to speak to you in private. No. Can it be Colonel Zapp that you do not trust the King? I do not trust you. I bow to your patriarchal wisdom, Colonel. But my offer concerns only the King. Very well. Walk with me towards the window. We can converse privately enough, I think. Well, what does Michael propose? He offers you 100,000 pounds to pack and take safe conduct over the border. You're something of a wit, Hanfow. I told Michael you'd refuse. The fact is, between ourselves, Michael doesn't understand a gentleman. But we do, Hanfow, don't we? Residents earlier a man after my own heart. Now here's my plan for us. Disregarding Michael, of course. Michael, such a bore. Listen, all you need do is to attack the castle boldly. The castle where Michael has the King prisoner. Go on. Black Michael will fall. The King? You don't want to find him. You won't, that's provided for. Only you and I are left to know the truth. Understand? I, Rupert of Hensow, and you, the King of the realm. Aren't you being a little unfair to Michael? Perhaps a little, but I can't put up with his jealousy. Jealousy? Jealousy of me and his charming mistress, Antoinette. Ah, and you're doing all this for love. How romantic. Well, love and your majesty's gratitude throughout your long and happy reign. And then, of course, you might make over to me my scrolls of this castle in its estates. Very clever scheme. Does you credit? Shall we shake hands, then? You. Oh, you. Do you hear the man's zapped? He's marvelous. All right, Englishman. And die. Yeah, look out, his knife. Stop him, guard. We'll meet again, Englishman, after him. Shoot, you fool. Shoot, you kill. Colonel, you heard what Hensow said of the castle and the King? Yes. We know where the King is now. And we know how we're to get into the castle. How? Our circuit police made contact with Michael's mistress. She is in the castle now. Her servant, Johann, is one of our men. He tells us she is afraid that if Michael succeeds, he will marry Princess Flavia and leave her. And she wants the plot to fail. Good. She reports that this Johann will lower the draw bridge two hours past midnight. But the noise, the King will be killed at the first alarm. Yes, yes. But she says that before the bridge goes down, one of us must swim them out, climb into her room. That man alone must hold off the guards for murdering the King until Johann can lower the bridge and let our army into the castle. Tonight, there are two guards with the King and Count Rupert of Hensau. I think I should be the one to swim the moat. Right, lad. We can't afford to lose both our Kings. One King you lose tonight. If anything happened to the King and not to me, your game is up anyway. I've been an imposter for his sake. I could not be one for my own. I swim the moat for its not you. But if we lose you both, what will become of those of us who are left? They will serve Queen Flavia. And I would, God, I could be one of them. I understand that we cannot amuse your majesty here in Strelso. But you are leaving tonight for Zender to hunt boars. Boar hunting? Who told you that? I heard from Kinozapt. Oh, yes, of course. Yes, but do you think I want to go? I'm sure not. It's the boars. They're simply pining for you to hunt them. Did they send a delegation for you? Perhaps the boars will hunt me. Perhaps Flavia, they'll catch me. Or you're not even touched by that danger, are you? This is the way you used to be. Not like the king of come to love. Oh, my darling, did you dream I was leaving you to go hunting? How are you not going? Well, I'm not going hunting. That is not just for boar. Then what are you? Rudolph, it's Michael. Oh, it's nothing. It seems he has hatched a lurid little plot at Zender. But I won't let you go. Send someone else. And what sort of a king would do that? I don't understand. And I cannot tell you yet. But believe me when I say, there are reasons why I must go. I'm sorry. You see, I've never been in love before, Rudolph. You'll come back soon. Shanta Man, come back to the loveliest lady in all the wide world. A thousand Michaels couldn't keep me from you. But if I shouldn't go, Rudolph, will you never, never forget me? And would you be a brave queen and do your part? My life would be empty. My heart dead. But you wouldn't do your part. Rudolph, give the order and we'll storm Michael's castle. Easy, lad. He hasn't lowered the drawbridge yet. He's dead, I tell you. It's been an hour since he swam the moat and scaled the wall. We were betrayed. I know it. We'll never get into that fortress. Have patience, Fritz. I'm Rudolph Rassendale. Oh, handsome, that's what you mean. He's killed Michael. Michael is dead. Who killed him? Rupert of Henson. Oh. I had him come to my room to get him out of your way. Michael surprised me. He killed Michael. He killed your husband. He knows the plot. The cause is lost. Oh, where is the king? Quickly, where is the king? He's in the dungeon. Two guards. Take Michael's sword. Beware of Rupert. Mind you, men. The first son of alarm stabbed the king and dropped him into the river. I'll deal with the others. You may have company, though I doubt they'll be able to storm this fortress. Aye, we shall take care of the king. Good. I'll have a look from the battlements. Keep your wits about you. Here's the king. Oh, he'll do. Water. Water, please. Water. Yes, he'll do. Shut up, you. I'll give you water. I'll give you water. I'll give you water. Shut up, you. I'll give you water. I'll give you water. Look out. It's the foreigner. Rudo. Cousin Rudo. I'll have the drawbridge down in a moment. Courage, Sire. Only Rupert stands on our side now in our way. And he's above on the battlements. Oh, no, he isn't imposter. Rupert. So you killed the guard. Very daring of you, Ascendil. But now it's my turn. You played right into my hand. Now I'll be rid of the both of you. The king and his bothersome double. Oh, no, you don't stand in place. I'll give you your fencing lesson, Englishman. Lesson in my own way. I should fight you any way you wish when the bridge is down. Tell me I command you. Ascendil lives wounded, yes. But he saved the king. And this Rupert of Enzo? Escaped. The man is a devil. Where is... Where is... Ascendil, come. He is waiting. There. Rude of my darling. You're hurt. I love you with all my heart and soul. Forgive me for the wrong I've done you. It would have made no difference if I'd known. But always you, never the king. I meant to tell you. I tried to on the night of the ball. I know. What are we to do now, Rude of? I'm going away. Tonight. No, no. No, you can't. Oh, my darling. Come with me. Oh, no, no. I'm mad. No, I love you on the head, Miss dear. For one lovely moment I too was mad. But his love the only thing. If it were, I could follow you to the end of the world. For you hold my heart in the hollow of your hand. But if love were the only thing, you would have left the king to die in his cell. Honor binds a woman too, Rude of. I don't know why God has let me love you. But I do know that I'm staying. I think God chose his purpose to such as you. Your heart will always be in my heart. At your new lips on mine. Your heart will always be in my heart. The touch of your lips on mine. My queen. My love. My love. And my true night. My darling. Fate doesn't always make the right man king. Goodbye. Goodbye, my darling. Whenever you see the name Squibb on a product, a name you can trust, you will also see a number you can trust. It is called a control number, and it plays a vitally important part in safeguarding the uniformity, purity and efficacy of the Squibb product you are about to use. 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