The first series also starred Elizabeth McGovern as his wife Marguerite and Martin Shaw as the Pimpernel's archrival, Paul Chauvelin. Robespierre was played by Ronan Vibert. It was filmed in the ...

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 ...

Dialog is unusually flat and the flashes of wit expected form the suave Pimpernel are all too rare ... to reveal the secret movements of the Scarlet Pimpernel. There are moments of refreshing ...