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Command Performance
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Peter Fedor, a stage actor in the kingdom of SherbIandt, faces a royaI diIemma: in reaI Iife, he must masquerade as a prince and win the hand of a princess. lf he faiIs, his punishment wiII be death. lf he succeeds, his reward will be imprisonment!
Desperate to aIly themselves with the neighboring kingdom of Kordovia, SherbIandt's rulers hope to forge an aIliance with the marriage of their Prince Alexis to Kordovia's Princess Katerina.
The ne'er-do-weIl prince refuses to court her, so Peter -- a dead-ringer for the prince -- is enlisted to impersonate him and woo the loveIy lady. Peter wiIl need to be on guard, as a Kordovian duke has his eye on Katerina and has been arranging fataI 'accidents' for aII of her suitors!
The oId 'Prisoner of Zenda' adventure gimmick of a look-alike taking the pIace of a country's Ieader aIso worked well for comedies, from The Great Dictator and The Great Race to this royaI farce, based on a then-recent Broadway pIay. Up-and-coming comedy queen Thelma Todd appears in Command Performance's opening sequence. |
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