The Elusive Pimpernel (1950)
Note: this print runs 93 minutes against a recorded 109 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Arlette Marchal, Arthur Wontner, Cyril Cusack, Danielle Godet, Howard Vernon, Hugh Kelly
Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
The Elusive Pimpernel is a 1950 British period adventure film by the British-based director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. It was released in the United States under the title The Fighting Pimpernel. The picture stars David Niven as Sir Percy Blakeney (a.k.a. The Scarlet Pimpernel) and Margaret Leighton as Marguerite Blakeney and features Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack and Robert Coote. Originally intended to be a musical, the film was re-worked as a light-hearted drama.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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