The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Match courage with courage... meet cunning with cunning!”

Someone in England keeps slipping French nobles out from under Robespierre's guillotine, and he leaves behind only a scarlet flower as a signature. Harold Young follows Sir Percy Blakeney (Leslie Howard), a foppish aristocrat who seems to care for nothing but fashion, while Chauvelin (Raymond Massey) closes in. At home, Lady Marguerite (Merle Oberon) watches a husband whose silences she cannot read.