The Elusive Pimpernel
Overview
Foppish Sir Percy Blakeney, who secretly leads a double life as the daring rescuer of French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution, fights to save his brother-in-law while his wife is manipulated by the villainous Chauvelin into helping capture him, unaware of her husband's true identity.
- Budget
- $480,000
- Revenue
- $140,000
- Production
- London Films Productions, The Archers
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Cast
David Niven
Percy "Scarlet Pimpernel" Blakeney
Margaret Leighton
Marguerite Blakeney
Cyril Cusack
Chauvelin
Jack Hawkins
Prince of Wales
Arlette Marchal
Contesses de Tournai
Gérard Néry
Philippe de Tournai
Charles Victor
Colonel Winterbotham
Danielle Godet
Suzanne de Tournai
Eugene Deckers
Captain Merieres
David Oxley
Captain Duroc
John Longden
The Abbot
Arthur Wontner
Lord Grenville
David Hutcheson
Lord Anthony Dewhurst
Robert Coote
Sir Andrew ffoulkes
Patrick Macnee
Hon. John Bristow
Terence Alexander
Duke of Dorset
Howard Vernon
Comte de Tournai
Crew
- Director
- Michael Powell,Emeric Pressburger
- Writers
- Emeric Pressburger,Michael Powell
- Producers
- Emeric Pressburger,Michael Powell
- Cinematography
- Christopher Challis
- Composer
- Brian Easdale
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CinemaSerf
April 4, 2022
David Niven takes on the mantle of Baroness Orczy's hero in this classy but a little lightweight take on the escapades of the "Scarlet Pimpernel". Hugely successful at smuggling doomed artisto's from under the nose of the Reign of Terror, the French authorities charge "Chauvelin" (Cyril Cusack) to track down the culprit. He has some leverage with the new and glamorous "Lady Blakeney" (Margaret Leighton) and so offers her the life of her brother if she will agree to help him. She just happens to …