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The Scarlet Pimpernel

6.8(53)19822h 22m2

During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin

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Released
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Language
English
  • french revolution
  • 18th century
  • scarlet pimpernel

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Director

Clive Donner

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TVPGCBS9 Nov 1982

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The Scarlet Pimpernel was released on 9 November 1982.

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    CinemaSerf

    4/19/2026

    7/10

    This is adapted from two of the Baroness Orczy's books as we head to an 18th century Paris where the terror is in full swing and the newly empowered citizenry are beheading aristocrats left, right and centre. Even Louis XVI and his Queen Marie Antoinette have been spliced. There is one hope for those imprisoned, though, and that comes in the form of an enigmatic rescuer. "The Scarlet Pimpernel" is proving the bane of…

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