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About The Scarlet Pimpernel. The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the ...
Local and regional productions of Pimpernel are still happening throughout the U.S. and around the world. Check with your local theaters to see when the show might play near you. Find out what past cast and crew from the show are up to now. set sketches, and a history of the French Revolution. New York productions of the show.
The Scarlet Pimpernel (chronological order) Series. During the bloodthirsty French Revolution, the "League of the Scarlet Pimpernel", a secret society of 20 English aristocrats, is engaged in rescuing their French counterparts from the daily executions. Their leader, the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, takes his nickname from the drawing of a ...
About The Scarlet Pimpernel. It is 1792 and France is in the grip of a seething, bloody revolution. Mobs roam the Paris streets hunting down royalists, barricades block any chance of escape, and every day hundreds die under the blade of Madame la Guillotine. But in the hearts of the condemned nobility there remains one last vestige of hope ...
The Scarlet Pimpernel. A wealthy 18th-century Briton (Richard E. Grant) dons disguises to save French nobility, including his wife (Elizabeth McGovern), from the guillotine.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel is a series of television drama programmes loosely based on Baroness Emmuska Orczy 's series of novels, set during the French Revolution . It stars Richard E. Grant as Sir Percy Blakeney, and his alter ego, the eponymous hero. The first series also starred Elizabeth McGovern as his wife Marguerite and Martin Shaw as the ...
