The Scarlet Pimpernel(1934):Starring Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon
A Aristocrat leads a double life as a underground Vigilante group intent on freeing the French Nobles From a Royal Reign Of Terror. British adventure film directed by Harold Young and starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, & Raymond Massey. Based on the classic adventure novel The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emma Orczy, the film is about an eighteenth-century English aristocrat who leads a double life, appearing as an effete aristocrat while engaged in an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre’s Reign of Terror during the revolution.
