The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

1937 NR 1h 28m 5.6

Paris is Burning! Under the Iron Fist of Robespierre hundreds are executed, by the swift and bloodstained guillotine. Through these acts of injustice a new heroism is born - The League of The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Sir Percy Blakeney (in the guise of the masked Scarlet Pimpernel), an Englishman who with the aid of a band of his friends, is engaged in spiriting French aristocrats across the English Channel to escape the guillotine. Robespierre, the ruthless revolutionary, informs the chief of the police he must capture the Scarlet Pimpernel or lose his own head to the blade. Blakeney's wife is abducted and taken to France forcing him to follow her in a rescue attempt.

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Info about The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Studio(s): London Films Productions

Originally Released: Apr 10, 1938

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres: Drama, History, Romance