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The Elusive Pimpernel is a 1950 British period adventure film by the British-based director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. It was released in the United States under the title The Fighting Pimpernel.
May 7, 2018 · In this costume adventure set in France during the Reign of Terror, a mysterious man known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel rescues noblemen from the guillotine and leads them to safety across the English Channel. Chauvelin is determined to unmask the Pimpernel and bring him to justice.
During the French Revolution, Englishman Sir Percy Blakeney (David Niven) dons an outlandish disguise to become the Scarlet Pimpernel, and rescues doomed French aristocrats from the guillotine ...
- Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
- Adventure
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
The Elusive Pimpernel. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Poems: Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Adventure. Drama. Romance | French Revolution. 18th Century. Swashbuckler. Register so you can access movie recommendations tailored to your movie taste.
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- United Kingdom
- Christopher Challis
- Michael Powell,, Emeric Pressburger
In revolutionary France, an intrepid Englishman is rescuing aristocrats from the guillotine. But who is the mysterious pimpernel? Show full synopsis. Although The Elusive Pimpernel is a light-hearted romp that refuses to take itself seriously, it was the source of bitter recriminations and a subsequent lawsuit between its executive producers.
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Sep 10, 2012 · The Elusive Pimpernel 1950, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | Film review. Film. Time Out says. A reasonably faithful adaptation of Baroness Orczy's tale of the...
