
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
6.9|20 Dec, 1934|97 min
Match courage with courage... meet cunning with cunning!
6.9|20 Dec, 1934|97 min
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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.
Keywords
husband wife relationship
double life
secret identity
french revolution
guillotine
dandy
aristocrat
18th century
troubled marriage
scarlet pimpernel
reign of terror
fop
1790s
Casts

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)
Hindle Edgar
Lord Wilmot
William Freshman
Lord Hastings

A. Bromley Davenport
French innkeeper (Brogard)

Allan Jeayes
Lord Grenville

John Turnbull
Jellyband

Gertrude Musgrove
Sally - Jellyband's Daughter

Morland Graham
Treadle the tailor
Crews
Arthur Benjamin
Original Music Composer

Alexander Korda
Producer

Lajos Biró
Writer

S. N. Behrman
Writer

Robert E. Sherwood
Writer

Arthur Wimperis
Writer
Harold Young
Director

Harold Rosson
Director of Photography
William Hornbeck
Editor

Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Novel
A.W. Watkins
Sound Recordist
Geoffrey Boothby
Assistant Director
David B. Cunynghame
Production Manager
Osmond Borradaile
Camera Operator
Muir Mathieson
Music Director
Backdrops & Posters

