The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)

Directed by

Harold Young

Genre

drama film, swashbuckler film, adventure film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 71 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 18th century France, an English aristocrat secretly rescues nobles from the Reign of Terror while pretending to be a fop. He hides his daring rescues from his wife and the French authorities.

fast-pacedsuspensefulromanticheroicswashbucklingdramaticcleverescapist

What happens

The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1934 British adventure film starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, and Raymond Massey. It was directed by Harold Young and produced by Alexander Korda. Based on the 1905 play by Baroness Orczy and Montagu Barstow and the 1905 adventure novel by Orczy, the film is about an 18th-century English aristocrat (Howard) who leads a double life, passing himself off as an effete aristocrat while engaged in a secret effort to rescue French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror. Howard's portrayal of the title character is often considered the definitive portrayal of the role. In 1941, he played a similar role in "Pimpernel" Smith but this time set in pre-WWII Germany. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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