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An English nobleman, the Scarlet Pimpernel, assumes a dual identity to outwit the French Republicans and aid innocent aristocrats during the French Revolutio...
The tumbrels roll through the streets of Paris, carrying enemies of the new French Republic to their appointments with “Madame Guillotine.” But to the revolutionaries’ fury, more than a few of France’s hated aristocrats have escaped execution thanks to the actions of a dashing young Englishman known as the Scarlet Pimpernel (Anthony Andrews, Brideshead Revisited).
The edition places the book The Scarlet Pimpernel within the context of the elite and popular literature of the turn of the century. Orczy's novel is close in kin to such contemporary political thrillers as Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (1907); tales that channelled contemporary concerns about refugees and enemies within.
1997年に「スカーレット・ピンパーネル」（the scarlet pimpernel）という原題と同タイトルでブロードウェイ ミュージカル化された。 登場人物などの設定は原作に近いが、ストーリーはかなり異なり、マルグリートが手紙を盗み見るところの他は、ほとんどの場面が原作には全くない場面で構成され ...
11 de abr. de 2013 · http://ow.ly/jYtcM His real name: Sir Percy Blakeney. His calling: rescuing French aristocrats from the guillotine during the Reign of Terror. Anthony Andrew...
Die scharlachrote Blume ist ein britischer Historien- und Abenteuerfilm aus dem Jahre 1934. Unter der Regie von Harold Young übernahm Leslie Howard die Titelrolle eines adeligen Abenteurers. Bei der (west-)deutschen Wiederaufführung im Fernsehen 1964 lief der Film unter dem Titel Das scharlachrote Siegel .
1 de may. de 2000 · The mysterious figure known as the Scarlet Pimpernel, sworn to rescue helpless men, women, and children from their doom; his implacable foe, the French agent Chauvelin, relentlessly hunting him down; and lovely Marguerite Blakeney, a beautiful French exile married to an English lord and caught in a terrible conflict of loyalties—all play their parts in a suspenseful tale that ranges from the ...
