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Release Date: 1934

Cast: Raymond Massey, Joan Gardner, Bramwell Fletcher, Leslie Howard, Anthony Bushell, Walter Rilla, Merle Oberon, Nigel Bruce, Edmund Breon

Categories: Movies, Swashbuckler films, Adventure, Costume drama, Action, Black-and-white, Action/Adventure, Comedy, Film adaptation

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) is an adaptation of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the classic adventure novel by Baroness Orczy. The film was produced by Alexander Korda, directed by Harold Young and stars Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon, along with Raymond Massey. In 1792, at the bloody height of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, vengeful French mobs are outraged when again and again French aristocrats are saved from death by the audacious "Band of the Scarlet Pimpernel", a secret society of 20 English noblemen, "one to command, and nineteen to obey". Among the latest scheduled for execution... MORE

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) is an adaptation of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the classic adventure novel by Baroness Orczy. The film was produced by Alexander Korda, directed by Harold Young and stars Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon, along with Raymond Massey. In 1792, at the bloody height of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, vengeful French mobs are outraged when again and again French aristocrats are saved from death by the audacious "Band of the Scarlet Pimpernel", a secret society of 20 English noblemen, "one to command, and nineteen to obey". Among the latest scheduled for execution are the Count de Tournay, former ambassador to Great Britain, and his family. However, one of the Scarlet Pimpernel's men visits them in prison disguised as a priest and gives them a message of hope. As the prisoners are being escorted to the cart to be taken to the guillotine, the guards take the count away; French leader Maximilien Robespierre wishes to question him further. The countess and her daughter are rescued and spirited away to England. Back in Paris, Robespierre meets with Chauvelin, the republic's new ambassador to Britain, to discuss the problem of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Summoning LESS