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

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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