The Scarlet Pimpernel [1982] (1 disc)

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Alternates	The Scarlet Pimpernel

Synopsis: A British aristocrat risks everything to save French aristocrats from the guillotine in post-revolutionary France.

Reaction: Highly entertaining and quite touching.

Personal Rating: 8/10

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Clive Donner	=>	Director
William Bast	=>	Writer
Nick Bicāt	=>	Composer
Baroness Emmuska Orczy	=>	Play and Novels
Montagu Barstow	=>	Play
Anthony Andrews	=>	Sir Percy BlakeneyThe Scarlet Pimpernel
Christopher Villiers	=>	Lord Anthony Dewhurst

Daphne Anderson	=>	Lady Grenville
David Gant	=>	Fouquet
Dominic Jephcott	=>	Sir Andrew Ffoulkes
Eleanor David	=>	Louise
Ian McKellen	=>	Chauvelin

James Villiers	=>	Baron de Batz
Jane Seymour	=>	Marguerite St. Just

John Quarmby	=>	Ponceau
Julian Fellowes	=>	The Prince Regent

Malcolm Jamieson	=>	Armand St. Just
Mark Drewry	=>	Lord Timothy Hastings
Nick Brimble	=>	Bibot
Richard Charles	=>	The Dauphin
Richard Morant	=>	Robespierre
Timothy Carlton	=>	Count de Beaulieu

Random Trivia For This Title:

The dramatic scene performed on stage by Marguerite, and later by Louise, is from "Phaedra" by ^[?] Jean Racine (1677).
Julian Fellowes (The Prince Regent) is the Creator of [Downton Abbey (2010)].
Sir Ian McKellen and Timothy Carlton appear in this movie. Decades later, McKellen appeared in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), along with Carlton's son, Benedict Cumberbatch.
The Prince of Wales is referred to as the Prince Regent. However, Prince George (later George IV) did not officially become the Prince Regent for his ailing father until 1811, while the film takes place in the 1790s.
John Quarmby worked two weeks.