The Scarlet Pimpernel
Match courage with courage... meet cunning with cunning!
DramaAdventurehusband wife relationshipdouble lifesecret identityfrench revolutionguillotinedandyaristocrat18th centurytroubled marriagescarlet pimpernelreign of terrorfop
A swashbuckling adventure built on deception and daring rescue, where a charming aristocrat's secret heroism tests his marriage amid the horrors of the French Revolution.
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
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Leslie Howard
Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
Merle Oberon
Lady Marguerite Blakeney
Raymond Massey
Chauvelin
Nigel Bruce
The Prince of Wales
Bramwell Fletcher
The Priest
Anthony Bushell
Sir Andrew Ffoulkes
Joan Gardner
Suzanne de Tournay
Walter Rilla
Armand St. Just
Mabel Terry-Lewis
Countess de Tournay
O.B. Clarence
Count de Tournay
Ernest Milton
Robespierre
Edmund Breon
Col. Winterbottom
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