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.

1934

Drama·Adventure

1h 37min

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Top Billed Cast

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)
William Freshman
Lord Hastings
A. Bromley Davenport
French innkeeper (Brogard)
Allan Jeayes
Lord Grenville
John Turnbull
Jellyband

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