The Scarlet Pimpernel
Match courage with courage... meet cunning with cunning!
1934 | 97m | English
Popularity: 0.4 (history)
| Director: | Harold Young |
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| Writer: | S. N. Behrman, Lajos Biró, Robert E. Sherwood, Arthur Wimperis, Baroness Emmuska Orczy |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Dec 20, 1934 |
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| Director: | Harold Young |
| Writer: | S. N. Behrman, Lajos Biró, Robert E. Sherwood, Arthur Wimperis, Baroness Emmuska Orczy |
| Genres: | Adventure, Drama |
| Keywords | double life, husband wife relationship, secret identity, french revolution, guillotine, dandy, aristocrat, 18th century, troubled marriage, scarlet pimpernel, reign of terror, fop, 1790s |
| Production Companies | London Films Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Melville Cooper | Romney |
| Gibb McLaughlin | The Barber |
| Morland Graham | Treadle |
| Brember Wills | Doman (uncredited) |
| Hindle Edgar | Lord Wilmot |
| William Freshman | Lord Hastings |
| A. Bromley Davenport | French innkeeper (Brogard) |
| Allan Jeayes | Lord Grenville |
| John Turnbull | Jellyband |
| Gertrude Musgrove | Sally - Jellyband's Daughter |
| Morland Graham | Treadle the tailor |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Harold Rosson | Director of Photography |
| S. N. Behrman | Writer |
| Harold Young | Director |
| Arthur Benjamin | Original Music Composer |
| William Hornbeck | Editor |
| David B. Cunynghame | Production Manager |
| Geoffrey Boothby | Assistant Director |
| A.W. Watkins | Sound Recordist |
| Osmond Borradaile | Camera Operator |
| Muir Mathieson | Music Director |
| Lajos Biró | Writer |
| Robert E. Sherwood | Writer |
| Arthur Wimperis | Writer |
| Baroness Emmuska Orczy | Novel |
| Name | Title |
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| Alexander Korda | Producer |
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Leslie Howard portrays the ultimate good Samaritan in this enjoyable Alexander Korda adaptation of Baroness Orczy's tale of the murderous aftermath of the French Revolution. Married to the glamorous Merle Oberon, whom he believes selfishly betrayed the "St. Cyr" family to the guillotine, he, and his ... gang of lieutenants, daringly rescue aristocrats from under the very noses of the evil "Chauvelin" (Raymond Massey). Soon they are all walking a very tight rope between freedom and death after "Chauvelin" is sent to London to track down the "Scarlet Pimpernel" and where he tricks Oberon into betraying our intrepid rescuers. Howard is at times a little too theatrical with his foppish - "sink me" characterisation but Harold Young still creates a wonderfully tense drama with great performances from a particularly menacing Massey, and the supporting cast - Nigel Bruce amongst them - make this, for my money, the best silver screen adaptation of this novel.