Aladdin
1992 · Animation · Family
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Film / 1982
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Directed by
Clive Donner
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin
The story
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin
Cast
Anthony AndrewsSir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel
Jane SeymourMarguerite St. Just
Ian McKellenChauvelin
James VilliersBaron de Batz
Eleanor DavidLouise
Malcolm JamiesonArmand St. Just
Denis LillCount de Tournay
Ann FirbankCountess de Tournay
Richard MorantRobespierre
Julian FellowesThe Prince Regent
Timothy CarltonCount de Beaulieu
David GantFouquet
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John QuarmbyPonceau
Carol MacReadyMme. Duval
Tracey ChildsSuzanne
Joanna DickensAunt Lulu
Dominic JephcottSir Andrew Ffoulkes
Christopher VilliersLord Anthony Dewhurst
Geoffrey TooneMarquis de St. Cyr
Sean MathiasDispatcher
Daphne AndersonLady Grenville
Tony CaunterPochard
Nick BrimbleBibot
Athene FieldingNoblewoman
Mark DrewryLord Timothy Hastings
Barrie HoughtonExecutioner
Kate HowardCountess de Beaulieu
Richard CharlesThe Dauphin
Preston LockwoodDuke
Iris EversonDuchess
Gabrielle ParkerMarchioness
Derek DeadmanHandler
Carolyn PertweeSeamstress
Martine CopelandAnnette
Martin WyldeckMarquess
James PayneJailor
David Rolfe2nd Major Domo
Gordon GostelowDuval
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