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  1. The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title (co-authored with her husband Montague Barstow) enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903.

    • Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
    • 1905
  2. Nov 9, 1982 · The Scarlet Pimpernel: Directed by Clive Donner. With Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen, James Villiers. Paris, 1792: After France becomes a republic, aristocrats are guillotined. The English Sir Percy tries to save as many as he can as The Scarlet Pimpernel in disguises.

    • (5.2K)
    • Action, Drama, Romance
    • Clive Donner
    • 1982-11-09
  3. The Scarlet Pimpernel: Directed by Harold Young. With Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce. A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.

    • (4.8K)
    • Adventure, Drama
    • Harold Young
    • 1935-02-07
  4. The Scarlet Pimpernel: With Richard E. Grant, Ronan Vibert, Gerard Murphy, Ron Donachie. During the turmoil of the French Revolution, English aristocrat Percy Blakeney, often aided by his League of friends, secretly undertakes various daring missions as the Scarlet Pimpernel.

    • (1.3K)
    • 1999-01-24
    • Adventure, Drama
    • 540
  5. The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1982 British romantic adventure television film set during the French Revolution. It is based on the novels The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) and Eldorado (1913) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, and stars Anthony Andrews as Sir Percy Blakeney/the Scarlet Pimpernel, the protagonist, Jane Seymour as Marguerite St.

  6. Jul 18, 2024 · The novel’s protagonist, Sir Percy Blakeney, ostensibly a foppish English aristocrat, is secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel, a swashbuckling hero and elusive master of disguise who rescues French aristocrats and smuggles them out of France to safety during the French Revolution.

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  8. Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel.

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