assures her the marriage is invalid because she never completed her wedding vows. Humperdinck finds them, and challenges Westley to a duel, but Westley wills himself to stand and intimidates the prince into surrendering just before Inigo finds them. They hear Fezzik's voice outside and discover he has procured four white horses for their escape. They leave Humperdinck tied to a chair and jump to safety through the window. Having killed Rugen, Inigo is unsure what to do with his life now. Westley offers him the Dread Pirate Roberts's title. As dawn arises, Westley and Buttercup share a passionate kiss. Back in his bedroom, the boy eagerly asks his grandfather to read him the story again the next day, to which his grandfather replies, "As you wish.” Cast Framing story Fred Savage as The Grandson Peter Falk as Grandpa/The Narrator Betsy Brantley as The Mother Main story Cary Elwes as Westley/Dread Pirate Roberts/The Man in Black Robin Wright as Buttercup/The Princess Bride Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya Chris Sarandon as Prince Humperdinck Christopher Guest as Count Tyrone Rugen Wallace Shawn as Vizzini André the Giant as Fezzik Peter Cook as The Impressive Clergyman Mel Smith as The Albino Carol Kane as Valerie, Max's wife Billy Crystal as Miracle Max Margery Mason as The Ancient Booer Malcolm Storry as Yellin Willoughby Gray as The King Production Development Rob Reiner, who had been enamored with Goldman's book ever since he was given it as a gift from his father, Carl Reiner, realized he wanted to make the film adaptation after successfully demonstrating his filmmaking skill with the release of This Is Spinal Tap in 1984. During production of Stand by Me, released in 1986, Reiner had spoken to an executive at Paramount Pictures regarding what his next film would be, and suggested the adaptation of The Princess Bride. He was told they could not, leading Reiner to discover that several studios had previously attempted to bring Goldman's book to the big screen without success. Those previous attempts included 20th Century Fox, which paid Goldman $500,000 for the film rights and to do a screenplay in 1973. Richard Lester was signed to direct and the movie was almost made, but the head of production at Fox was fired and the project was put on hiatus. Goldman subsequently bought back the film rights to the novel with his own money. Other directors had also