The Elusive Pimpernel

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The Elusive Pimpernel
The Elusive Pimpernel Video Cover
Directed by	Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger
Produced by	Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger
Written by	Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger
Starring	David Niven Margaret Leighton Cyril Cusack Jack Hawkins
Music by	Brian Easdale
Cinematography	Christopher Challis
Editing by	Reginald Mills
Distributed by	British Lion Films
Release date(s)	February 6, 1950 UK
Running time	109 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
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The Elusive Pimpernel (1950) is a film by the British-based director-writer team of Powell & Pressburger, based on The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, and its sequel The Elusive Pimpernel. It was released in the USA as The Fighting Pimpernel.

It stars David Niven as Sir Percy Blakeney (aka The Scarlet Pimpernel), Margaret Leighton as Marguerite Blakeney and Cyril Cusack as Chauvelin.

Originally planned as a musical, it was re-worked as a light-hearted drama, not entirely successfully.

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v • d • e Powell and Pressburger The films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1930s The Spy in Black • The Lion Has Wings (not Pressburger) 1940s Contraband • An Airman's Letter to His Mother • Forty-Ninth Parallel • One of Our Aircraft is Missing • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp • The Volunteer • A Canterbury Tale • I Know Where I'm Going! • A Matter of Life and Death • Black Narcissus • The Red Shoes • The Small Back Room 1950s The Elusive Pimpernel • Gone to Earth • The Tales of Hoffmann • Oh... Rosalinda!! • The Battle of the River Plate • Ill Met by Moonlight 1960s Peeping Tom (not Pressburger) • They're a Weird Mob • Age of Consent (not Pressburger) 1970s The Boy Who Turned Yellow