Elusive Pimpernel (1950)

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In this costume adventure set in France during the Reign of Terror, a mysterious man known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel rescues noblemen from the guillotine and leads them to safety across the English Channel. Chauvelin (Cyril Cusack) is determined to unmask the Pimpernel and bring him to justice.… More In this costume adventure set in France during the Reign of Terror, a mysterious man known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel rescues noblemen from the guillotine and leads them to safety across the English Channel. Chauvelin (Cyril Cusack) is determined to unmask the Pimpernel and bring him to justice. When evidence begins to suggest that the hero is actually foppish Sir Percey Blakeney (David Niven), Chauvelin blackmails Percey's wife, Marguerite (Margaret Leighton), into cooperating on the threat that he'll expose the criminal activities of her brother Armand (Edmund Audran). However, Marguerite doesn't much care for her husband, hardly believes he could be the heroic Pimpernel, and is startled when she finds out that he truly is the masked vigilante. The Elusive Pimpernel was originally shot in color as a musical, but the musical numbers were cut before the film was released, and the picture's American distributor chose to make only black-and-white prints (though the current home-video release is in color). ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 49 min.
Directed By: Michael Powell
Genres: Action & Adventure

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Cast

            David Niven as Scarlet Pimpernel/Sir Percy Blakeney

            Margaret Leighton as Marguerite Blakeney

            Jack Hawkins as Prince of Wales

            Cyril Cusack as Chauvelin

            Robert Coote as Sir Andrew Ffoulkes

            David Hutcheson as Lord Anthony Dewhurst

            Arlette Marchal as Countesse de Tournai

            Terry Alexander as Duke of Dorset

            Edmund Audran as Armand St. Juste

            Peter Copley
            
            Eugene Deckers as Capt. Meiieres

            Tom Duggan as Earl of Sligo

            Archie Duncan as Man in bath

            John Fitzgerald as Sir Michael Travers

            Richard George as Sir John Coke

            Danielle Godet as Suzanne de Touman

            Hugh Kelly as Mr. Fitzdrummond

            John Longden as Abbot

            Patrick Macnee as Hon. John Bristow

            Gerard Nery as Phillipe de Toumai

            David Oxley as Capt. Duroc

            Raymond Rollett as Bibot

            Philip Stainton as Jellyband

            Howard Vernon as Comte de Tournai

            Charles Victor as Col. Winterbottom

            Arthur Wontner as Lord Grenville

            Michael Powell
            
            John Hewitt as Maj. Pretty

            George de Warfaz as Baron

            Jane Gill Davies as Lady Grenville

            Robert Griffiths as Trubshaw
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