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Alexander Korda's production of the classic comedy-adventure stars Leslie Howard as foppish English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney, who is also the Scarlet Pimpernel: the dashing hero and scourge of the French Revolution. With Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey and Nigel Bruce. Directed by Harold Young and Roland V Brown and Korda.

Keywords:

Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Based-on-Novel, Based-on-Play, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(Black and white) (1934) (UK) (4 Star)

Cast:

Leslie Howard	.... Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel
Merle Oberon	.... Lady Marguerite Blakeney
Raymond Massey	.... Citizen Chauvelin
Nigel Bruce	.... Prince of Wales
Bramwell Fletcher	.... Priest
Anthony Bushell	.... Sir Andrew Ffoulkes

Supporting Cast:

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

Directors:

Harold Young

Writers:

Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Lajos Biró