of the king). Cast Errol Flynn as Miles Hendon Billy Mauch as Tom Canty Bobby Mauch as King Edward VI Claude Rains as the Earl of Hertford Henry Stephenson as the Duke of Norfolk Barton MacLane as John Canty Alan Hale, Sr. as The Captain of the Guard Eric Portman as The First Lord Lionel Pape as The Second Lord Leonard Willey as The Third Lord Murray Kinnell as Hugo Hendon Halliwell Hobbes as The Archbishop Phyllis Barry as The Barmaid Ivan F. Simpson as Clemens Montagu Love as Henry VIII of England Fritz Leiber as Father Andrew Elspeth Dudgeon as John Canty's Mother Mary Field as Mrs. Canty Forrester Harvey as The Meaty Man Joan Valerie as Lady Jane Seymour Lester Matthews as St. John Robert Adair as The First Guard Harry Cording as The Second Guard Robert Warwick as Lord Warwick Rex Evans as Rich Man Holmes Herbert as The First Doctor Ian MacLaren as The Second Doctor Anne Howard as Lady Jane Grey Gwendolyn Jones as Lady Elizabeth Lionel Braham as Ruffler Harry Beresford as The Watch Lionel Belmore as The Innkeeper Ian Wolfe as The Proprietor Leo White as Jester (uncredited) Production Warner Bros had Billy and Bobby Mauch under contract, and had used them separately in Anthony Adverse, The White Angel and The Charge of the Light Brigade. The studio announced The Prince and the Pauper as part of their line up in June 1936. (They bought the rights to the story from Twain's estate for $75,000.) Patric Knowles was cast for the role of Miles in October. However Jack L. Warner then decided he wanted someone with a bigger name and asked Errol Flynn to do it. Reception According to Warner Bros records, the film earned $1,026,000 domestically and $665,000 foreign making it the studio's most popular film of the year. Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times wrote, "Bobby and Billy justify their twinship completely, not merely by investing the Twain legend of mistaken royal identity with a pleasing degree of credibility, but by playing their roles with such straightforwardness and naturalness that the picture becomes one of the most likable entertainments of the year ... The novel and the screen have been bridged so gracefully we cannot resist saying the Twain and the movies have met." Variety published a negative review, reporting: "The fragile plot scarcely holds together a full length