Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel
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The Elusive Pimpernel is a 1950 British period adventure film by the British-based director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. It was released in the United States under the title The Fighting Pimpernel.
May 7, 2018 · 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 is determined to unmask the Pimpernel and bring him to justice.
During the French Revolution, the Scarlet Pimpernel (David Niven), who is really Sir Percy Blakeney in disguise, risks his life to rescue French noblemen from the guillotine and take them...
During the French Revolution, Englishman Sir Percy Blakeney (David Niven) dons an outlandish disguise to become the Scarlet Pimpernel, and rescues doomed French aristocrats from the guillotine...
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A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
In revolution-torn Paris of 1792, The Scarlet Pimpernel rescues aristocrats from the guillotine and smuggles them to safety across the English Channel. Citizen Chauvelin determines that he will capture and unmask this folk hero and travels to England.
May 26, 2017 · David Niven makes an affable if not inspired Scarlet Pimpernel (aka British aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney) in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s costly, colourful 1950 film The Elusive Pimpernel.
