
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Match courage with courage... meet cunning with cunning!
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.
- Year: 1934
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Drama, Adventure
- Studio: London Films Productions
- Keyword: husband wife relationship, double life, secret identity, french revolution, guillotine, dandy, aristocrat, 18th century, troubled marriage, scarlet pimpernel, reign of terror, fop, 1790s
- Director: Harold Young
- Cast: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher, Anthony Bushell