The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)

Approved 07 Feb 1935 • Adventure, Drama • 1h 37m

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.

Harold Young
Director

Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Alexander Korda, Montagu Barstow
Writer

Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey
Starring

Language: English, French
Awards: 1 win
Country: United Kingdom
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7.3

IMDb (4822 votes)

90%

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