The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Sir Percy Blakeney seems to be every bit a foppish English gentleman. This is actually a cover to conceal his identity as the ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’, daring saviour of French aristocrats from the infamous guillotine. But due to his successes, a French political figure, Chauvelin, wants to unmask him. Pimpernel’s wife has also been ignorant of his double life, but when Chauvelin kidnaps her brother, she is drawn into a conspiracy which would like to see the Scarlet Pimpernel hanged.
Starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey
Director Harold Young