The Elusive Pimpernel

Categories: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Foppish Sir Percy Blakeney, who secretly leads a double life as the daring rescuer of French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution, fights to save his brother-in-law while his wife is manipulated by the villainous Chauvelin into helping capture him, unaware of her husband's true identity.
Status: Released IMDb
Release date: 1950-11-07
Run time: 109 minute / 1:49
Budget: $480,000
Revenue: $140,000
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger.
Production Companies : London Films Productions, The Archers
Production Country: United Kingdom

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David Niven
as Percy "Scarlet Pimpernel" Blakeney
Margaret Leighton
as Marguerite Blakeney
Cyril Cusack
as Chauvelin
Jack Hawkins
as Prince of Wales
Arlette Marchal
as Contesses de Tournai
Gérard Néry
as Philippe de Tournai
Charles Victor
as Colonel Winterbotham
Danielle Godet
as Suzanne de Tournai
Edmond Audran
as Armand St. Juste
Eugene Deckers
as Captain Merieres
David Oxley
as Captain Duroc
Raymond Rollett
as Bibot
Philip Stainton
as Jellyband
John Longden
as The Abbot
George De Warfaz
as Baron
Arthur Wontner
as Lord Grenville
Richard George
as Sir John Coke
David Hutcheson
as Lord Anthony Dewhurst
Robert Coote
as Sir Andrew ffoulkes
Patrick Macnee
as Hon. John Bristow
Terence Alexander
as Duke of Dorset
Richmond Nairne
as Beau Pepys
Howard Vernon
as Comte de Tournai
Editing
Reginald Mills Editor

Writing
Emeric Pressburger Writer

Directing
Michael Powell Director

Production
Emeric Pressburger Producer

Art
Arthur Lawson Art Direction

Production
Michael Powell Producer
George R. Busby Production Assistant

Art
Hein Heckroth Production Design

Costume & Make-Up
Ivy Baker Costume Design

Sound
Brian Easdale Music

Costume & Make-Up
Nandi Heckroth Costume Design

Writing
Baroness Emmuska Orczy Novel

Costume & Make-Up
Bernard Sarron Costume Design

Camera
Christopher Challis Director of Photography

Directing
Emeric Pressburger Director

Writing
Michael Powell Writer

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