Mistaken Identities

The 1937 “Prisoner of Zenda” is indeed “enormously enjoyable”; I have seen it 14 times since 1937. But there are two errors in Kenneth Turan’s comments on it (“A Good-Looking Bunch,” July 23).

First, in the photo of the duel, Ronald Colman is not crossing blades with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., as your caption states, but with Ralph Faulkner; he kills Faulkner in the dungeon, then duels with Fairbanks, who is not wearing a white shirt but a black one and has a mustache and curly hair. Second, Fairbanks does not play Black Michael, the king’s illegitimate evil brother, as Turan states, but the dashing villain Rupert of Hentzau; Raymond Massey is Black Michael.

ROBERT E. MORSBERGER

Claremont

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Morsberger wrote the introduction to “Ronald Colman: A Bio-Bibliography” (Greenwood Press, 1997).