The Elusive Pimpernel (1949)

Directors

Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

Cast

David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack

The story

During the French Revolution, the Scarlet Pimpernel, who is really Sir Percy Blakeney in disguise, risks his life to rescue French aristocrats from the guillotine and take them across the English Channel to safety. As cover, Sir Percy poses as a fop at Court and curries favour with the Prince of Wales by providing advice about fashion, but secretly he leads The League, a group of noblemen with similar views. Chauvelin, the French ambassador to England, wants to find out who the Pimpernel is, so he can be brought to French justice.

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