The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
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80% of critics liked it
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70% of users liked it
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This film from director Harold Young is the second big-screen adaptation of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. Leslie Howard stars as Sir Percy Blakeney, a British aristocrat who rescues innocent victims of the French Revolution under the guise of The Scarlet Pimpernel… More This film from director Harold Young is the second big-screen adaptation of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. Leslie Howard stars as Sir Percy Blakeney, a British aristocrat who rescues innocent victims of the French Revolution under the guise of The Scarlet Pimpernel while maintaining the identity of a foppish dandy by day. Even his wife, Lady Marguerite Blakeney (Merle Oberon), is unaware of Percy's heroic alter-ego as he and his band of likeminded masked men save countless people from the guillotine. Perhaps the most famous adaptation of the classic book, The Scarlet Pimpernel would later be lampooned in 1966's Don't Lose Your Head. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Directed By
- Harold Young
- Written By
- Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Lajos Biró
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Art House & International, Classics, Comedy, Documentary, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Feb 7, 1935 Wide
- Studio
- A & E
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Robust as an action packed hero tale and love story.
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Luanne Brown, Chico Enterprise-Record
Howard is fabulously foppish.
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Cast
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Leslie Howard
as Scarlet Pimpernel/Sir Percy Blakeney
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Merle Oberon
as Marguerite Blakeney
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Raymond Massey
as Chauvelin
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Nigel Bruce
as Prince of Wales
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O.B. Clarence
as Count de Tournay
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Bramwell Fletcher
as Priest
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Joan Gardner
as Suzanne de Tournay
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Walter Rilia
as Armand St. Just
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Anthony Bushell
as Sir Andrew Ffoulkes
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Ernest Milton
as Robespierre
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John Turnbull
as Jellyband
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Melville Cooper
as Romney
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Mabel Terry-Lewis
as Countess de Tournay
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Edmund Breon
as Col. Winterbottom
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Allan Jeayes
as Lord Grenville
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Edmund Willard
as Bibot
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Bruce Belfrage
as Pitt
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A. Bromley Davenport
as French Innkeeper
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Derrick De Marney
as Members of the Pimpernel League
- Hugh Dempster
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Hindle P. Edgar
as Lord Wilmot
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Morland Graham
as Treadle
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Lawrence Hanray
as Burke
- Carl Harbord
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Gibb McLaughlin
as The Barber
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Gertrude Musgrove
as Jellyband's Daughter
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Bill Shine
as An Aristocrat
- Philip Strange
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Harry Terry
as "Renad"
- Peter Evan Thomas
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Brember Wills
as Doman
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Wiliam Freshman
as Lord Hastings
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Renee Macready
as Lady Q
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Arthur Hambling
as Captain of the Guard
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Kenneth Kove
as "Codlin"
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Douglas Stewart
as "Merieres"
- Raymod Massey
- Walter Rilla
