British adventure film directed by Harold Young and starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, & Raymond Massey. Based on the classic adventure novel The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emma Orczy, the film is about an eighteenth-century English aristocrat who leads a double life, appearing as an effete aristocrat while engaged in an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre’s Reign of Terror during the revolution.
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"I'll make him squeal like The Scarlet Pimpernel!"
Interestingly at 1:01 She says to her maid "Thank you Mary you can go to bed"… note this is unlikly as it is bad English… Obviously, any one who has suffered a good grade school teacher knows it should be : "Thank you Mary you may go to bed"…
Why I gotta read this for summer reading
WELL – I THINK IT WAS THE GUILLOTINE THAT CAUSED THE MAGNACARTA???
WITHER WAY, THEY SHOULD HAVE KEPT GOING, FORGET THE PIMPERNELL
Terrific movie and cast. The contrast between Britain with its aristocracy and France with its version was interestingly played by the cast. Continental Europe (among others)seemed to have a fascination with mass murder as a technique for building societies.
Sink me, what a wonderful quality print of this most excellent production!
I have always wanted to be a "fop." What American Universities offer courses in foppish?
Leslie Howard was Jewish? No Way? Who ever heard of a Jew being a actor? What?
And never forget Pimpernel Smith, Leslie Howards personal version of the Scarlett Pimpernel, both Classics, I love these old movies. I grew up on them. Thumbs-Up. 🙂
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I used to think this story was called the Scarlet Pumpernickel.
Scarlet Pumpernickel, by Daffy D. Duck!
Good movie. Wonder how Powell/Pressburger's 1950 remake "the Elusive Pimpernel" compares.
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schlomo bloom……wow! what ignorance comes out of the mouth of a person who lacks education…..you clearly don't know squat about jews and history.
uh……what!
The theme for this film was always one of my favorite things about it.
Sir Percy fits one of our crowd like a glove!
Very Boring
y tits in the thumbnail?
Back then without TV or Internet, public beheading was the choice of social entertainment. Although there's many ways to kill, this one is one of the most personal.
"BUT IF A COUNTRY GOES MAD, IT HAS A RIGHT TO COMMIT EVERY HORROR WITHIN IT'S OWN WALLS" A DIRECT QUOTE FROM THE FILM
I think Merle Oberon was fantastic. I enjoyed the remake with Jane Seymour & Anthony Andrews also.
What a beautiful scene 26:27
Anthony Andrews and Richard E Grant were both good choices for this role, but Leslie Howard IS Percy Blakeney.