Scarlet Pimpernel (The)
- Director: Harold Young
- Writer: Baroness Emmuska Orczy; Montagu Barstow
- Producer: Alexander Korda; Grace Blake
CGiii Comment
It's as camp as tits - fops everywhere.
And, strangely, it is a rather enjoyable yarn.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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, and she finds that her brother has been arrested by the Republic to try and get her to find out who "that damned elusive Pimpernel" really is.
Cast & Characters
Leslie Howard as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel;
Merle Oberon as Lady Blakeney;
Raymond Massey as Chauvelin;
Nigel Bruce as The Prince of Wales;
Bramwell Fletcher as The Priest;
Anthony Bushell as Sir Andrew Ffoulkes;
Joan Gardner as Suzanne de Tournay;
Walter Rilla as Armand St. Just;
Mabel Terry-Lewis as Countess de Tournay;
O.B. Clarence as Count de Tournay;
Ernest Milton as Robespierre;
Edmund Breon as Colonel Winterbottom;
Melville Cooper as Romney;
Gibb McLaughlin as The Barber;
Morland Graham as Treadle