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| Motion Picture News, 18-August-1923 |
Anthony Hope's Ruritanian romance novel The Prisoner of Zenda was a great success when it was published in 1894. Hope published a sequel, Rupert of Hentzau, in 1898. Rupert was the charming villain who had run away at the end of the first novel.
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| Motion Picture News, 18-November-1922 |
In 1922, director Rex Ingram made an adaption of The Prisoner of Zenda, which was a great success. Ramon Novarro played the charismatic Rupert.
The following year, Myron Selznick produced an adaption of Rupert of Hentzau. Victor Heerman directed. Lew Cody, who often played charming rogues, was Rupert. The elaborate nine-page ad shows that this was a major production.
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