Scarlet Pimpernel (Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness)
Blakeney, Percy, Sir (Fictitious character) Drama.
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
The story of the Scarlet Pimpernel, who saved aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution.
The setting is London and France during 1792, the time of the French Revolution. About an Englishman who rescued French aristocrates from the guillotine.
The Scarlet pimpernel
Adventure
Alexander Korda's The scarlet pimpernel
Scarlet Pimpernel (Motion picture : 1934)
London fop Percy Blakeney is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who, in a variety of disguises, makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristocrats from Madame Guillotine. His unknowing wife is also French, and she finds that her brother, has been arrested by the Republic to try and get her to find out who "that damned elusive Pimpernel" really is.
The scarlet pimpernel
Scarlet Pimpernel (Television program : 1999-2000). Series 1. Episode 2
Leslie Howard stars as a dashing undercover man during the French Revolution. By day he masquerades as an ineffectual member of the royalty. But at night he dons a peasant's costume and becomes the Scarlet Pimpernel, defying the bloody tribunals of the Revolution and snatching doomed aristocrats from Dame Guillotine.
An apparently ineffectual member of royalty by day dons a peasant's costume at night and defies the bloody tribunals of the French Revolution by snatching the doomed aristocrats from the guillotine.
A dashing, romantic adventure set in the early days of the French revolution. Leslie Howard as a foppish Englishman leading a double life, rescues innocent French aristocrats from the guillotine.
Leslie Howard stars as Sir Percy Blakeney, one of the greatest romantic heroes of all time, an English aristocrat who under the alias of The Scarlet Pimpernel, was engaged in the underground effort to rescue innocent French noblemen from death under the Guillotine during the French Revolution. Merle Oberon is stunning as Lady Blakeney and the dangerous and cunning Chauvelin is played brilliantly by a sinister Raymond Massey.
Fiction
Film adaptations
Scarlet pimpernel (1934)
An apparently ineffectual member of royalty by night dons a peasant's costume and defies the bloody tribunals of the French Revolution by snatching the doomed aristocrats from the guillotine.
Films for people with visual disabilities
The Scarlet Pimpernel is set in late eighteenth century France during the darkest days of the French revolution. An Engllishman, called the Scarlet Pimpernel, and his followers adopt secret identities and outwit the French Republicans while saving the aristocrats from the bloodshed of the Reign of Terror.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Dashing English dandy Sir Percy Blakeney poses as The Scarlet Pimpernel to rescue aristocrats from death in revolutionary France.
In this adventure film set during France's Reign of Terror, the revolutionary regime is troubled and baffled by a series of daring rescues of condemned aristocrats. Leaving a small red flower as his calling card, the Scarlet Pimpernel assumes a variety of disguises as he saves the gentry from the guillotine. The French send Chauvelin, an investigator posing as an ambassador, to discover the identity of the Pimpernel. The courageous savior is none other than Sir Percy Blakeney, a dandy in the court of the Prince of Wales. (Does not circulate).
History
In the outskirts of Paris, Louis Capet, heir to the French throne and orphan of the ancient regime, is being indoctrinated into Republican sensibilities. When he is kidnapped by a masked intruder, once again, the only hope for the French aristocracy is another masked man, The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Scarlet pimpernel
During the French Revolution, an apparently foppish Englishman leads a daring band in rescuing aristocrats from the guillotine.
Leslie Howard plays an English nobleman who attemps to rescue doomed French aristocrats during the French Revolution.
Leslie Howard plays an English nobleman who attempts to rescue doomed French aristocrats during the French Revolution.
Drama
Fiction films
Leslie Howard stars as a dashing undercover man during the French Revolution. By day he masquerades as an ineffectual member of the royalty. But at night he dons a peasant's costume and becomes the Scarlet Pimpernel, defying the bloody tribunals of the Revolution and snatching the doomed aristocrats from Dame Guillotine.
British films
Feature films
An adaptation of the novel by Baroness Orczy about a dashing dandy of the English court with a dual identity trying to defend the innocent aristocrats from the violent French Republicans.
This historical adventure is set during the French revolution and the reign of the cruel Robespiere. A compassionate nobleman, master of disguises, leads a double life - one as a cowardly fop and the other as a dashing swordsman who rescues French nobles from the guillotine.
Howard plays the dashing 18th century hero who poses as a member of the revolution to snatch imprisoned noblemen from the jaws of the guillotine and spirit them to safety in England.
Motion pictures
Videocassettes
Leslie Howard stars as a young English aristocrat who leads a double life as he rescues doomed French noblemen from the guillotine.
The scarlet Pimpernel La Pimpinela escarlata
An adaptation of the novel by Baroness Orczy in which a dashing dandy of the English court tries to defend innocent aristocrats from the violence of the French revolution.
An Englishman leads a double life, aiding victims of the French Revolution while posing as a foppish member of the British society. Based on a famous novel by Baroness Orczy.
An English nobleman plays the part of a fop in order to keep secret his activities as the brazen rescuer of aristocrats doomed to death by the bloody tribunals of the French Revolution.
Features
A member of British society moonlights as a swashbuckling liberator of innocent victims of the French Revolution.
Scarlet Pimpernel [VHS videorecording]
A British dandy leads a double life-- as the Scarlet Pimpernel, he aids innocent victims of the French Revolution.
Historical
"En France, sous la terreur, des membres de l'aristocratie sont sauvés de la guillotine par les coups de mains audacieux d'un individu qui se fait appeler le Mouron rouge. Agissant sous divers déguisements, il leur permet de trouver refuge sur le sol anglais. Exaspéré, Robespierre, confie à l'ambassadeur Chauvelin la tâche primordiale de le démasquer. Celui-ci fait pression sur madame Blakeney, une connaissance française, mariée à un intime du Prince de Galles, afin qu'elle obtienne les renseignements décisifs--"--Site web Wikipedia.
Swashbucklers
Videodiscs
Historical drama
Scarlet Pimpernel
Scarlet Pimpernel (Television program : 1999-2000). Series 1. Episode 3
Action and adventure films
This story focuses on the efforts of a British dandy to aid members of the French aristocracy in escaping the guillotines of the French revolution.
Set in London and France during 1792 when a reign of terror is sweeping through France and all aristocrats are being sentenced to death at the hand of the guillotine. Only the Scarlet Pimpernel has managed to save some of them at the last moment with his bold exploits and crafty disguieses. No one knows the identity of the Pimpernel. He eludes Robespierre at every step. This historical drama has elegant costumes, beautiful sets and an outstanding cast.
This 1934 film, based on the 1905 novel by Emmuska Orezy, tells the story of a man who helped many French aristocrats escape the terror of the revolution.
Alexander Korda's The Scarlet Pimpernel
Historical films
The height of the French Revolution's reign of terror, and British aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney continues his daring rescues of unjustly persecuted French citizens-as the dashing masked stranger known to all as the Scarlet Pimpernel.
An apparently ineffectual English nobleman by night dons a peasant's costume and defies the bloody tribunals of the French Revolution by snatching doomed aristocrats from the guillotine.
Reproduction of a 1935 film about the French Revolution with Leslie Howard in a dual role. Also stars Raymond Massey and Nigel Bruce.
An apparently ineffectual member of British nobility by night dons a peasant's costume and defies the bloody tribunals of the French Revolution by snatching the doomed aristocrats from the guillotine.
Blakeney, Percy, Sir (Fictitious character)