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The Scarlet Pimpernel [1982] (1 disc)

Director:	Clive Donner
Writer:	William Bast
Composer:	Nick Bicāt

Length:	136 minutes (2 hours 16 minutes)
MPAA Rating:	UR
Sorting Category:	Drama

IMDB Rating:	7.6/10
Amazon Rating:	5.0/5 stars
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Romance

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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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Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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Montagu Barstow

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Anthony Andrews

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Sir Percy BlakeneyThe Scarlet Pimpernel

Christopher Villiers

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Lord Anthony Dewhurst

Daphne Anderson

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Lady Grenville

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Fouquet

Dominic Jephcott

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Sir Andrew Ffoulkes

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Louise

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Chauvelin

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Baron de Batz

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Marguerite St. Just

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Ponceau

Julian Fellowes

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The Prince Regent

Malcolm Jamieson

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Armand St. Just

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Lord Timothy Hastings

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Bibot

Richard Charles

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The Dauphin

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Robespierre

Timothy Carlton

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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.