Word: pimpernels
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...guillotine takes its deadly toll as The Terror rules Paris. But Citizen Robespierre is annoyed. Victim after victim slips through his fingers and crosses the channel to England, all through the infernal machinations of that "Damned elusive Pimpernel." Into the background of eighteenth century France and England Leslie Howard fits like a package of cigarettes in cleophane. As the uncannily clever schemer disguised as an old hag, as the suave nobleman who courts, death to save his friends, the nobles of the French court, as the fastidious fop who advises the Prince of Wales on the proper jabeau, Howard...
...Scarlet Pimpernel" is a film which has already received too much praise to be spoiled by trite phrases here. The Playgoer recommends it strongly, even to those romantic souls who must have their Hollywood endings. Need we say, yes, we might as well, Merle Oberon is a young lady who makes Hollywood endings a real pleasure, indeed, a delight...
...Keith's: "The Searlet Pimpernel...
Keith Memorial--"Scarlet Pimpernel...
...chief merit of Alexander Korda's historical researches (Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Don Juan) is the quality of adult humor, with which he endows them. Like his previous works, The Scarlet Pimpernel is a lavish period piece, packed with all the paraphernalia of an epoch that the cinema has neglected since D. W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm. Nonetheless, its most engaging moments occur when Sir Percy, puttering in London, chuckles at Romney's portrait of his wife, sneers at the cut of the Prince Regent's newest coat sleeves, describes his necktie...