Scarlet Pimpernel 3pk

A & E's lavish adaptation of the swashbuckling, adventure stories, written by Baroness Emmuska Orezy, bring passion and intrigue into the sweeping world of the dashing SCARLET PIMPERNEL. It is the height of the French Revolution and Sir Percy Blakeney (Richard E. Grant), has a secret. By day, he is just another foppish British aristocrat. By night, he becomes the legendary SCARLET PIMPERNEL, a caped crusader for the I8th Century. With sparkling wit and brilliant disguises, he forms a secret league of followers to fight against the tyrants of the French Revolution and save the innocent from Mademoiselle Guillotine. He becomes a hero caught in a sinister web of intrigue when Chauvel in, the bloodthirsty leader of the French Revolution, tries to enlist his former lover, Blakeney s wife Lady Marguerite, (Elizabeth McGovern), to help him catch the elusive and dashing Pimpernel! Each brilliantly adapted story leads to danger and intrigue culminating in a tale of secret identities where no one is who they appear to be.