Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1935) - (Movie Clip) Fops, Fools, Nitwits, Cowards

Scarlet Pimpernel, The - (Original Trailer)

A British aristocrat (Leslie Howard) seems effete but is actually a swashbuckling hero rescuing victims of the French revolution.

Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Our Most Dangerous Enemy

Completing the rescue of the de Tournays (Joan Gardner, Mabel Terry-Lewis, Roy Meredith) by fake French officer Ffoulkes (Anthony Bushell), then the big reveal, that the old French hag wagon driver is Leslie Howard, the title character, Sir Percy, who loses the costume and splits with his brother-in-law (Walter Rilla), in The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1935.

Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) A Humble Wayside Flower

Anthony Bushell as Sir Andrew, a Britisher posing as a French revolutionary officer, with the de Tournays, whom he rescued (Joan Gardner, Mabel Terry-Lewis, Roy Meredith) from the guillotine, leading to the introduction of Merle Oberon as the unseen and uninformed hero’s wife, Melville Cooper her painter, in London Films’ The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1935.

Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Can You Never Rise Above Trivialities?

Leslie Howard finds that he, the master-spy title character, is the topic, cranking up his bon-vivant act, as he comes upon his tormented wife (Merle Oberon), who doesn’t know his true identity, and whom he thinks is a willing conspirator for the French, and the French ambassador Chauvelin (Raymond Massey), who’s blackmailing her into another betrayal, in The Scarlet Pimpernel,1935.

Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Open, London 1792

Elegant opening credits then needless British martial display for the benefit of the Prince (Nigel Bruce) from Alexander Korda's The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1935, starring Leslie Howard.