Adventurous Knights is a 1935 American comedy adventure film directed by Charles E. Roberts and starring David Sharpe, Gertrude Messinger and Mary Kornman.^[1] It was parody reworking of The Prisoner of Zenda.^[2] It was intended to be the first of six films featuring former Our Gang actors produced for Poverty Row studio Ajax Pictures, but only this and Roaring Roads were ever made.^[3]

A successful American college athlete discovers that he is really the heir to the throne of a small Ruritanian European Kingdom. He travels there to take up his duties and see off a challenge from a pretender. He is appalled to discover that he has to marry a girl he has never seen before, without realizing he has met and fallen in love with her already.

• David Sharpe as David De Portola
• Gertrude Messinger as Princess Carmencita
• Mary Kornman as Annette
• Mickey Daniels as Mickey Daniels
• Roger Williams as Black Prince
• Eddie Phillips as Henchman
• Al Thompson as Parkins - the Butler

• Balio, Tino. Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939. University of California Press, 1995.
• Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940. McFarland & Company, 1997.

• Adventurous Knights at IMDb

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