The Scarlet Pimpernel
1935 NR
DRAMA 1h 34min
CAST— Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon,
Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher, Anthony Bushell, Joan Gardner,
Melville Cooper
MUSIC— Arthur Benjamin DIRECTOR— Harold Young BASED ON— The Scarlet Pimpernel (novel),
by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
If you’re in the mood for action,
adventure, swordplay and more, than look elsewhere, because The Scarlet
Pimpernel is not that type of hero. His days consist of stealing into
France, saving what few aristocratic necks from the guillotine that he can, and
secreting them back to England, all in time for tea. Back in his English digs
his wife is oblivious to the fact of his hidden identity, viewing her husband
as a droll bore, never living up to his potential. Yet when a representative of
the French government rides into town he makes a proposal that may alter her
life forever. Long on words, slow on everything else, don’t expect an
aristocratic Zorro. More like a less than intriguing espionage novel.
OUR RATING— * ½
REMADE AS— The Scarlet
Pimpernel (1982)
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