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.

Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Top 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

E

Edmond Audran

Armand St. Juste

Eugene Deckers

Captain Merieres

David Oxley

Captain Duroc

R

Raymond Rollett

Bibot

P

Philip Stainton

Jellyband

John Longden

The Abbot

G

George De Warfaz

Baron

Arthur Wontner

Lord Grenville

R

Richard George

Sir John Coke

David Hutcheson

Lord Anthony Dewhurst

Robert Coote

Sir Andrew ffoulkes

Patrick Macnee

Hon. John Bristow

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