The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
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This film from director Harold Young is the second big-screen adaptation of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. Leslie Howard stars as Sir Percy Blakeney, a British aristocrat who rescues innocent victims of the French Revolution under the guise of The Scarlet Pimpernel while maintaining the identity of a foppish dandy by day. Even his wife, Lady Marguerite Blakeney (Merle Oberon), is unaware of Percy's heroic alter-ego as he and his band of likeminded masked men save countless people from the guillotine. Perhaps the most famous adaptation of the classic book, The Scarlet Pimpernel would later be lampooned in 1966's Don't Lose Your Head. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Starring:
- Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, (more)
- Director(s):
- Harold Young
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of The Scarlet Pimpernel
This film from director Harold Young is the second big-screen adaptation of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. Leslie Howard stars as Sir Percy Blakeney, a British aristocrat who rescues innocent victims of the French Revolution under the guise of The Scarlet Pimpernel while maintaining the identity of a foppish dandy by day. Even his wife, Lady Marguerite Blakeney (Merle Oberon), is unaware of Percy's heroic alter-ego as he and his band of likeminded masked men save countless people from the guillotine. Perhaps the most famous adaptation of the classic book, The Scarlet Pimpernel would later be lampooned in 1966's Don't Lose Your Head. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 95 mins
Complete Cast of The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Leslie Howard - Scarlet Pimpernel/Sir Percy Blakeney
- Raymond Massey - Chauvelin
- O.B. Clarence - Count de Tournay
- Walter Rilia - Armand St. Just
- Anthony Bushell - Sir Andrew Ffoulkes
- John Turnbull - Jellyband
- Mabel Terry-Lewis - Countess de Tournay
- Allan Jeayes - Lord Grenville
- Bruce Belfrage - Pitt
- Wiliam Freshman - Lord Hastings
- Peter Evan Thomas
- Philip Strange
- Gertrude Musgrove - Jellyband's Daughter
- Douglas Stewart - "Merieres"
- Arthur Hambling - Captain of the Guard
- Derrick de Marney - Members of the Pimpernel League
- Hindle P. Edgar - Lord Wilmot
- Lawrence Hanray - Burke
- Merle Oberon - Marguerite Blakeney
- Nigel Bruce - Prince of Wales
- Bramwell Fletcher - Priest
- Joan Gardner - Suzanne de Tournay
- Ernest Milton - Robespierre
- Melville Cooper - Romney
- Edmund Breon - Col. Winterbottom
- Edmund Willard - Bibot
- Renee Macready - Lady Q
- Brember Wills - Doman
- Harry Terry - "Renad"
- Bill Shine - An Aristocrat
- Gibb McLaughlin - The Barber
- Kenneth Kove - "Codlin"
- A. Bromley Davenport - French Innkeeper
- Hugh Dempster
- Morland Graham - Treadle
- Carl Harbord
- Director(s):
- Harold Young
- Writer(s):
- Lajos Biró, Arthur Wimperis, S.N. Behrmann
- Producer(s):
- Alexander Korda
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR(Excellent For Children, Mild Violence)
- Categories:
- Action / Adventure
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