The Fighting Pimpernel (1950)
- Original title
- The Elusive Pimpernel
- Directed by
- Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
- Genre
- swashbuckler film, adventure film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A British aristocrat secretly leads a group to rescue nobles from the French Revolution. He balances his heroic double life with his marriage.
light-heartedswashbucklingromanticplayfuldashingperiodadventurouswhimsical
What happens
The Elusive Pimpernel is a 1950 British period adventure film by the British-based director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. It was released in the United States under the title The Fighting Pimpernel. The picture stars David Niven as Sir Percy Blakeney (a.k.a. The Scarlet Pimpernel) and Margaret Leighton as Marguerite Blakeney and features Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack and Robert Coote. Originally intended to be a musical, the film was re-worked as a light-hearted drama. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.