

The Scarlet Pimpernel
Match courage with courage... meet cunning with cunning!
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.
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- Language
- English
- husband wife relationship
- double life
- secret identity
- french revolution
- guillotine
- dandy
- aristocrat
- 18th century
- troubled marriage
- scarlet pimpernel
- reign of terror
- fop
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR7 Feb 1935
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalLondon20 Dec 1934
GermanyDE
- Theatrical15 Apr 1935
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The Scarlet Pimpernel was released on 20 December 1934.
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CinemaSerf
6/13/2022
Leslie Howard portrays the ultimate good Samaritan in this enjoyable Alexander Korda adaptation of Baroness Orczy's tale of the murderous aftermath of the French Revolution. Married to the glamorous Merle Oberon, whom he believes selfishly betrayed the "St. Cyr" family to the guillotine, he, and his gang of lieutenants, daringly rescue aristocrats from under the very noses of the evil "Chauvelin" (Raymond Massey). So…
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