Sir Percy PWNS Chauvelin- The Scarlet Pimpernel 

I first saw this movie in 1982. I looked it up recently after the Paris riots started up a month ago. Love it still.

InfernalGoose Sink me! Well Said!

+itsAlyssaO 😆

Bonecolektor ...same here! When i was like 5 i went as the pimpernel for halloween lol

Another LOL movie is Pride and Prejudice, the version with Colin Firth. Mrs. Bennet is hilarious.

@@kikia6611 Yes I’ve seen that one and agree. Although it is too long.

@@joeydoherty368 I know, but at least there are the best of Mrs. Bennet freak out clips here on RU-vid lol.

Dig it! A lot of the tropes with Scarlet Pimpernel: secret identity and disguises during "missions", signature/calling car, portraying themselves as effete or meek, ability to scheme/outwit the opponent are all now commonplace with masked heroes from Zorro to Batman using them due to Orczy's novel.

@@rubix41 So true, and watching this movie again for the first time in many years had me laughing out loud!

Percy was the OG superhero

This scene is the equivalent from Leslie Howard's version of "The Scarlet Pimpernel", "there's nothing in the world as bad as something, which is not so bad". Odds fish, my dear fellow!

I love this movie too. And the sound track is perfection. So glad it's available on RU-vid.

+Jasmine Byerley I use lines from the film sometimes in California, and people ask “what?!”. I tell them “The Scarlet Pimpernel, with Anthony Andrews. Give it a watch”. 😆 Thumbs-Up #6 I am, Tuesday afternoon 11 Dec 2018.

whistlingninja11 ...then let them eat cake! #PieceOfCake

Footzerg what?

Sorry about the late answer... I swear I saw it just a couple of times on TV when I was a kid (and dubbed to latin spanish), and never again. I still can´t take it of my mind!

He says "I can assure you"

And Gandalf. lol

HOGEFAN Not for me. I think Mr. Andrews struck just the right balance between seriousness and humor necessary to play Percy convincingly, especially in his ability to change "roles" (fop, dashing mystery hero, ardent suitor to reluctantly estranged husband and back again) seemingly as easily as flipping a switch. For me, it's mostly in the eyes. Here, for example, he's so clearly laughing silently at the irony of the situation before him, but only shows the fop, no matter how he might wish to behave otherwise just now.