Word: pimpernels
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Agent Bond, in short, is just a great big hairy marshmallow, but he sure does titillate the popular taste. In the past ten years the ten novels in which he figures have sold more than 11 million copies in the U.S. and abroad. And now at last the varlet pimpernel can be seen on the screen. He looks pretty good. As portrayed by Scotland's Sean Connery, he moves with a tensile grace that excitingly suggests the violence that is bottled in Bond. But somehow the poor chap almost always manages to seem slightly silly-he can hardly help...
Family Classics (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part Two of The Scarlet Pimpernel...
Family Classics (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The first show in a new David Susskind series is Part One of The Scarlet Pimpernel, with Michael Rennie, Maureen O'Hara and Zachary Scott...
...nurse. The Prince, who is eight months old, has been brought to the forest after Roderick, the film's usurping tyrant, has massacred the rest of the royal family. The Prince deserves the throne because he, and not Roderick, has on his bottom the royal birthmark--the Purple Pimpernel. By a stroke of good luck the demure Miss Johns knocks out a passer-by named Giacomo the Jester, who is in reality a secret agent. Dressed up in Giacomo the Jester's outfit, Danny Kaye goes to the castle to get the key to the secret passageway "for the cause...
...with Margie both turn out to be flops, he flees to Paris, but Margie follows him, still determined to lasso the cad with a wedding ring. Aboard ship she meets another charmer, Mike Eden, who has a bad case of nerves, but for good cause: he is playing Scarlet Pimpernel in Nazi Germany and smuggling out persecuted Jews. Still, Noel has a fatal hold on her, and she finally catches up with him, only to find him living with and off a lady photographer...