The Elusive Pimpernel

TV Mini Series
1969–
4h 10m

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Anton Rodgers in The Elusive Pimpernel (1969)

Who is the Scarlet Pimpernel, rescuer of condemned French aristocrats from the Revolution? Surely it can't be the effete Sir Percy Blakeney?Who is the Scarlet Pimpernel, rescuer of condemned French aristocrats from the Revolution? Surely it can't be the effete Sir Percy Blakeney?Who is the Scarlet Pimpernel, rescuer of condemned French aristocrats from the Revolution? Surely it can't be the effete Sir Percy Blakeney?

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Anton Rodgers

Sir Percy Blakeney

• 1969

Roy Marsden

Sir Andrew Ffoulkes

• 1969

John Stratton

Héron

• 1969

Bernard Hepton

Chauvelin

• 1969

Norma West

Desirée Candeille

• 1969

Malcolm Reynolds

Armand St. Just

• 1969

Diane Fletcher

Lady Marguerite Blakeney

• 1969

Richard Morant

Lord Tony Dewhurst

• 1969

Jonathan Newth

Lord Hastings

• 1969

Frederick Hall

Sergeant Bibot

• 1969

Jimmy Gardner

Robespierre

• 1969

Tamara Fuerst

Juliette de Marny

• 1969

Harold Innocent

Prince of Wales

• 1969

Trevor Martin

Monsieur Simon

• 1969

John Tordoff

André Lemoine

• 1969

Derek Ware

Drunken soldier…

• 1969

Margaret Flint

Madame Simon

• 1969

Desmond Cullum-Jones

Sentry…

• 1969

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janecontact

Thoughts on Elusive Pimpernel mini series

I agree with Fiona = only saw half of one episode back in May 1969 when I was a student and never saw the other episodes. I was so hoping to catch up on Video and then ~DVD but it appears the whole lot was wiped! Do hope there is someone out there who might have recorded something ! What I saw was great !

10wifeofbath

Desperately seeking Percy

The most romantic Percy to date, bar none!!!!!

Looks like I'm talking to myself here, but Anton Rogers was just wonderful as the Pimpernel, and Diane Fletcher as Lady Blakeney had none of the irritating qualities - a kind of smugness seeming almost de rigueur - that have seemed to attach to every other performance of Marguerite I've seen. In fact the whole cast were splendid, with Bernard Hepton a particularly disagreeable, sinister Chauvelin.

I guess that I'll never get to see it again, what with so many versions having been made since - they just aren't as good...

of course if anyone knows of a way to access B(efore) V(ideo) footage...