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6.2/10
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Poor boy Tom Canty and Edward, Prince of Wales exchange identities, but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.Poor boy Tom Canty and Edward, Prince of Wales exchange identities, but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.Poor boy Tom Canty and Edward, Prince of Wales exchange identities, but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
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- TriviaMark Lester's last acting role. He gave up acting due to the film's poor reception. It was widely rumoured, beginning around 2010, that he would return to acting in a portrayal of King Harold II in a film called "1066". Reports of this project faded toward the end of the 2010s without the film being made.
- GoofsAfter Miles Hendon fights with John Canty & his neighbors, Hendon lies apparently dead on the ground. One of Canty's neighbors warns Canty: "...The police'll beat on ye, even if no one else does..." The term "police" did not exist in England until the eighteenth century. He should have said watchmen or constables. This is a mishearing; Nipper says, "the priest'll peach (inform) on you if no-one else does." The priest has just examined the seemingly lifeless body of Miles Hendon and shouted "murderer!" at John Canty.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Making of 'The Prince and the Pauper' (1978)
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Star-studded version of Twain's Prince and the Pauper
I haven't seen this movie in 20 years, but I remember going to it mostly because of the impressive cast. The lead, playing the dual roles of the prince and the pauper, was Mark Lester, lately of "Oliver". It was too "lately". By the time this movie came out, Lester was FAR too old for the part(s) of street urchin and child king. Charlton Heston (he's Henry VIII here) seems attracted to this phenomenon. He also did Treasure Island with a too old Christian Bale as Jim Hawkins. Anyway, Heston and the rest of the cast did fine jobs, and the picture is good fun if you can fully suspend disbelief in deep voiced Lester as an innocent child.
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- mccarter
- Sep 30, 1999
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- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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