Anthony Andrews
Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel
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A classic adventure drama based on Baroness Emmuska Orczy's novel about a nobleman who rescues aristocrats from the French Revolution. Starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon and Raymond Massey, directed by Harold Young.
- (4.6K)
- Harold Young
- Not Rated
- Adventure, Drama
Nov 9, 1982 · A TV movie based on the novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, starring Anthony Andrews as the mysterious hero who rescues French aristocrats from the guillotine. The movie features Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen, and James Villiers, and won a Primetime Emmy.
- (5.1K)
- Clive Donner
- Not Rated
- Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian Mckellen
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1982 British romantic adventure television film set during the French Revolution. It is based on the novels The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) and Eldorado (1913) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy , and stars Anthony Andrews as Sir Percy Blakeney/the Scarlet Pimpernel, the protagonist, Jane Seymour as Marguerite St.
- Nick Bicât
- David Conroy
- 9 November 1982 (US)
- London Films
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1934 British adventure film directed by Harold Young and starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, and Raymond Massey.Based on the 1905 play by Baroness Orczy and Montagu Barstow and the classic 1905 adventure novel by Orczy, the film is about an eighteenth-century English aristocrat (Howard) who leads a double life, passing himself off as an effete aristocrat while ...
- £81,000
- Arthur Benjamin
- Alexander Korda
The best known of the Pimpernel movies is the 1934 The Scarlet Pimpernel starring Leslie Howard, which is often considered the definitive portrayal and adaptation. Films. In 1923, Fred Terry and Julia Nelson bought the sole performance right to a stageplay based on The Scarlet Pimpernel. Orczy sued the two in an attempt to claim a separate ...
- Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
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- 1905
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A movie adaptation of the novel by Baroness Orczy, starring Anthony Andrews as a British nobleman who fights for the French aristocrats during the Revolution. The film has positive reviews from critics and audiences, and features Ian McKellen as the villainous Chauvelin.
But to the revolutionaries' fury, more than a few of France's hated aristocrats have escaped execution thanks to the actions of a dashing young Englishman known as the Scarlet Pimpernel (Anthony Andrews, Brideshead Revisited). 2,778 IMDb 7.6 2 h 21 min 1982. X-Ray 13+.
