The Elusive Pimpernel (1919 film)

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The Elusive Pimpernel is a 1919 British silent adventure film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Cecil Humphreys, Marie Blanche and Norman Page.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090213224808/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/32239 BFI.org] It was based on the 1908 novel The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy.

Plot

A foppish English aristocrat secretly rescues people from the guillotine during the French Revolution.

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