The Scarlet Pimpernel

"Match courage with courage... meet cunning with cunning!"

Feb 7 1935 Approved 1h 37m
Adventure, Drama

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.

Plot

London fop Percy Blakeney is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who, in a variety of disguises, makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristocrats from Madame Guillotine. His unknowing wife is also French, and she finds that her brother has been arrested by the Republic to try and get her to find out who "that damned elusive Pimpernel" really is.

Written by

Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Alexander Korda, Montagu Barstow

Directed by

Harold Young

Cast

Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey

Crew

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Production Countries

United Kingdom

Production Companies

London Films Productions

Languages

Français, English

Awards

1 win

Trailers
The Scarlet Pimpernel trailer 1934
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