''Rupert of Hentzau'' is a 1915

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of the

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. It was directed by

George Loane Tucker George Loane Tucker (June 12, 1872 – June 20, 1921) was an American actor, silent film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. Career Tucker was born George S. Loane in Chicago to George Loane and stage actress Ethel Tucker. After ...

and starred

Henry Ainley Henry Hinchliffe Ainley (21 August 1879 – 31 October 1945) was an English actor. Life and career Early years Ainley was born in Morley, near Leeds, on 21 August 1879, the only son and eldest child of Richard Ainley (1851–1919), a textile ...

Jane Gail Jane Gail (August 16, 1890 – January 30, 1963), born Ethel S. Magee in Salem, New York, was an early American silent movie and stage actress. Biography Gail is best remembered for her role in the silent film ''Traffic in Souls'' (1913), and ...

and

Gerald Ames Gerald Ames (12 September 1880 – 2 July 1933) was a British actor, film director and Olympic fencer. Ames was born in Blackheath, London in 1880 and first took up acting in 1905. He was a popular leading man in the post-First World War cinema ...

. It was based on the 1898 novel ''

Rupert of Hentzau ''Rupert of Hentzau'' is a sequel by Anthony Hope to ''The Prisoner of Zenda'', written in 1895 but not published in book form until 1898. The novel was serialized in ''The Pall Mall Magazine'' and ''McClure's Magazine'' from December 1897 thr ...

'' by

Anthony Hope Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), was a British novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: ''Th ...

, the sequel to ''

The Prisoner of Zenda ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' is an 1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope, in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order ...

'' (1894). It tells the story of the journey of an Englishmen to

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in Eastern Europe where he is forced to impersonate a King to thwart the plans of a villainous aristocrat Rupert of Hentzau. It was released in the

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in 1916, which sometimes leads to it being attributed to that year. It was later re-released in 1918 at the end of the

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. It is believed to be a

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, no longer known to exist in any studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress.

Cast

as Rudolf Rassendyll / Rudolf V *

as Queen Flavia *

as Rupert of Hentzau *

Charles Rock Charles Rock (30 May 1866 – 12 July 1919) was a British actor. He was born Arthur Charles Rock de Fabeck. Rock also wrote at least one play: ''The Ghost of Jerry Bundler'', adapted from W. W. Jacobs' story ''Jerry Bundler''. It was cast at the ...

as Colonel Sapt * George Bellamy as Count von Rischenheim * Warwick Wellington as Lieutenant Bernenstein * Douglas Munro as Bauer * Stella St. Audrie as Chancellor's Wife

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* 1915 films 1915 adventure films British silent feature films Films directed by George Loane Tucker Films based on works by Anthony Hope Lost British films Films set in Europe Films based on British novels British black-and-white films British adventure films 1915 lost films Lost adventure films Silent adventure films 1910s British films {{silent-adventure-film-stub

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