The Scarlet Pimpernel [1934]

Director:	Harold Young
Writer:	Arthur Wimperis Lajos Biró Robert E. Sherwood S.N. Behrman
Composer:	Arthur Benjamin

Length:	97 minutes (1 hour 37 minutes)
MPAA Rating:	UR
Sorting Category:	Drama

IMDB Rating:	7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes Rating:	80%
Amazon Rating:	4.5/5 stars
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Drama
Romance
Family
Action

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Collection:	50 Movie Pack Family Classics Collection
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Alternates	The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Synopsis: An English aristocrat plays the fop to distract suspicion from his true activities: rescuing countless aristocrats from the guillotine of the French revolution.

Reaction: A fine interpretation from an older era.

Personal Rating: 8/10

Select Cast and Crew

Harold Young	=>	Director
Arthur Wimperis	=>	Writer
Lajos Biró	=>	Writer
Robert E. Sherwood	=>	Writer
S.N. Behrman	=>	Writer
Arthur Benjamin	=>	Composer
Baroness Emmuska Orczy	=>	Play and Novels
Montagu Barstow	=>	Play
Allan Jeayes	=>	Lord Grenville
Anthony Bushell	=>	Sir Andrew Ffoulkes
Bramwell Fletcher	=>	The Priest
Edmund Breon	=>	Colonel Winterbottom
Ernest Milton	=>	Robespierre
Gertrude Musgrove	=>	Jellyband's daughter 'Sally'
Gibb McLaughlin	=>	The Barber
Hindle Edgar	=>	Lord Wilmot
Joan Gardner	=>	Suzanne de Tournay
John Turnbull	=>	Jellyband (innkeeper)
Leslie Howard	=>	Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
Mabel Terry-Lewis	=>	Countess de Tournay
Melville Cooper	=>	Romney (The Great Artist)
Merle Oberon	=>	Lady Blakeney
Morland Graham	=>	Treadle (the tailor) (as Moreland Graham)
Nigel Bruce	=>	The Prince of Wales
O.B. Clarence	=>	Count de Tournay
Raymond Massey	=>	Chauvelin
Walter Rilla	=>	Armand St. Just
William Freshman	=>	Lord Hastings

Random Trivia For This Title:

The original director, ^[?] Roland V. Brown, was fired on his first day at work.
Lux Radio Theater broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on December 12, 1938 with Leslie Howard reprising his film role. ^[?] Olivia de Havilland performed with him after having just filmed Gone with the Wind together.
The original play opened in London on 5 January 1905, three years before it was novelized.
Percy Blakeney refers to one of the boxers as "Mendoza", a reference to ^[?] Daniel Mendoza, the 17th-century British Jew who revolutionized boxing. Mendoza was the heavyweight champion of England from 1792-5, despite being a middleweight.