The Scarlet Pimpernel

Overview

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.

Details

Cast

Leslie Howard

Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel

Merle Oberon

Lady Marguerite Blakeney

Raymond Massey

Chauvelin

Nigel Bruce

The Prince of Wales

Bramwell Fletcher

The Priest

Anthony Bushell

Sir Andrew Ffoulkes

Joan Gardner

Suzanne de Tournay

Walter Rilla

Armand St. Just

Mabel Terry-Lewis

Countess de Tournay

O.B. Clarence

Count de Tournay

Ernest Milton

Robespierre

Edmund Breon

Col. Winterbottom

Melville Cooper

Romney

Gibb McLaughlin

The Barber

Morland Graham

Treadle

Brember Wills

Doman (uncredited)

Hindle Edgar

Lord Wilmot

William Freshman

Lord Hastings

A. Bromley Davenport

French innkeeper (Brogard)

Allan Jeayes

Lord Grenville