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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 ...
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934, UK) In director Harold Young's film, it told about the double-life of an 18th century aristocrat who disguised himself to save French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror in France.
A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine. 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 ...
A British aristocrat's effete facade masks a swashbuckling hero rescuing victims of the French revolution.
1935 1h 35m Adventure List. 90% 10 Reviews Tomatometer 75% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score At the heart of the French Revolution, effete aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney (Leslie Howard) is secretly...
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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.
The Scarlet Pimpernel. Directed by Harold Young • 1934 • United Kingdom. Starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey. Prestige producer Alexander Korda applies his seal of quality to this rip-roaring swashbuckler, a rollickingly entertaining adaptation of the classic novel by Baroness Orczy, which introduced the widely imitated ...
