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The Scarlet Pimpernel: Directed by Harold Young. With Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce. A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
- (4.8K)
- Adventure, Drama
- Harold Young
- 1935-02-07
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1934 British adventure film directed by Harold Young and starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, and Raymond Massey. Based on the 1905 play by Baroness Orczy and Montagu Barstow and the classic 1905 adventure novel by Orczy, the film is about an eighteenth-century English aristocrat (Howard) who leads a double life ...
Dec 31, 2014 · Merle Oberon is always good. The whole cast is good. I prefer the newer color version. Not for the color, but because the actor who plays the Pimpernel is more interesting than Leslie Howard. The new version is funny and suspenseful. The previous reviewer should note that The Scarlet Pimpernel was written before Sherlock Holmes, Zorro or Batman.
- 93 min
- 154.2K
- k-otic
Some say the Scarlet Pimpernel is the character that Zorro and Batman were later based on. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member A classic film, shot in ...
- (10)
- Leslie Howard
- Harold Young
- Adventure
Sir Percy Leads the Band. The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title (co-authored with her husband Montague Barstow) enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903. The novel is set during the Reign of ...
- Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
- 1905
Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) A Humble Wayside Flower Anthony Bushell as Sir Andrew, a Britisher posing as a French revolutionary officer, with the de Tournays, whom he rescued (Joan Gardner, Mabel Terry-Lewis, Roy Meredith) from the guillotine, leading to the introduction of Merle Oberon as the unseen and uninformed hero’s wife, Melville Cooper her painter, in London Films’ The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1935.
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Written by CinemaSerf on June 13, 2022. Leslie Howard portrays the ultimate good Samaritan in this enjoyable Alexander Korda adaptation of Baroness Orczy's tale of the murderous aftermath of the French Revolution. Married to the glamorous Merle Oberon, whom he believes selfishly betrayed the "St. Cyr" family to the guillotine, he, and his gang ...
