The Scarlet Pimpernel

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

"Match courage with courage... meet cunning with cunning!"

1934

1h 37m

6.9(65 votes)

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Adventure

Overview

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.

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Cast & Crew

23 members

Acting

Leslie Howard

Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel

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Merle Oberon

Lady Marguerite Blakeney

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Raymond Massey

Chauvelin

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Nigel Bruce

The Prince of Wales

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Bramwell Fletcher

The Priest

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Anthony Bushell

Sir Andrew Ffoulkes

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Joan Gardner

Suzanne de Tournay

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Walter Rilla

Armand St. Just

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Mabel Terry-Lewis

Countess de Tournay

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O.B. Clarence

Count de Tournay

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Ernest Milton

Robespierre

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Edmund Breon

Col. Winterbottom

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Melville Cooper

Romney

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Gibb McLaughlin

The Barber

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Morland Graham

Treadle

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Brember Wills

Doman (uncredited)

Production

Hindle Edgar

Lord Wilmot

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William Freshman

Lord Hastings

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A. Bromley Davenport

French innkeeper (Brogard)

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Allan Jeayes

Lord Grenville

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John Turnbull

Jellyband

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Gertrude Musgrove

Sally - Jellyband's Daughter

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Morland Graham

Treadle the tailor

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