The Scarlet Pimpernel (Original title)
Date: 23 September 1935 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Harold Young
Synopsis: 1793: adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel, an Englishman who rescued French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution.
Genres: Action and Adventure, Period drama
Subjects: 18th century, French Revolution (1789-1799)
Releases
Date: 1935Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundAspect ratio: 1.375:1Runtime: 99 mins Length: 8904 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 23 September 1935 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Harold Young
Synopsis: 1793: adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel, an Englishman who rescued French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution.
Genres: Action and Adventure, Period drama
Subjects: 18th century, French Revolution (1789-1799)
Releases
Date: 1935Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundAspect ratio: 1.375:1Runtime: 99 mins Length: 8904 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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Presents: London Film Productions, Produced by: Alexander Korda, Production Manager: David B. Cunynghame, Assistant Director: Geoffrey Boothby, Scenario, Continuity and Dialogue by: Lajos Biro, Scenario, Continuity and Dialogue by: Sam Bermann, Scenario, Continuity and Dialogue by: Robert Sherwood, Arthur Wimperis, By [Original Novel]: The Baroness Orczy, Photographed by: Harold Rosson, Camera: Osmond Borradaile, Special Effects: Ned Mann, Film Editor: William Hornbeck, [Assistant Editor]: Derek Armstrong, Settings: Vincent Korda, Architect: Francis Hallam, Director of Costumes: John Armstrong, Miss Merle Oberon's Dresses Designed by: Oliver Messel, Costumiers: B.J.Simmons & Company, Musical Compositions: Arthur Benjamin, Music Director: Muir Mathieson, Recording Director: A.W. Watkins, Sound System: Western Electric, [Studio]: British and Dominions Studios
Cast
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Leslie Howard (Sir Percy Blakeney), 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 (Colonel Winterbottom), Melville Cooper (Romney), Gibb McLaughlin (the barber), Moreland Graham (Treadle), John Turnbull (Jellyband), Gertrude Musgrove (Sally, Jellyband's daughter), Allan Jeayes (Lord Grenville), Bromley Davenport (Brogard, French innkeeper), William Freshman (Lord Hastings), Hindle Edgar (Lord Wilmot), Lawrence Hanray ([Burke]), Bruce Belfrage ([Pitt]), Edmund Willard ([Bibot]), Roy Meredith ([Vicomte de Tournay]), Bill Shine ([an aristocrat]), Brember Wills ([Doman]), Kenneth Kove ([`Codlin', a fisherman]), Annie Esmond ([Lady W]), Rennie Macredy ([Lady Q]), Philip Strange, Carl Harbord, Philip Desborough, Hugh Dempster, Peter Evan Thomas, Derrick de Marney ([Member of the Pimpernel League]), Harry Terry ([`Renad']), Douglas Stewart ([`Merieres']), Arthur Hambling ([Captain of the Guard]), Nöel Birkin, Toska Bissing, Craigie Doune, Clifford Marquand, Ernest Milton, Tarver Penna, Alfred Wellesley, Millicent Wolf, Toska Bissing, Frederick Culley ([uncredited]), Robert Rietti ([boy in prison scene])