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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:29,800 www.moviesubtitles.org. 2 00:02:22,913 --> 00:02:25,343 Old guard, present arms! 3 00:02:47,923 --> 00:02:49,143 New guard... 4 00:02:49,447 --> 00:02:50,627 Halt! 5 00:02:54,306 --> 00:02:55,306 New guard... 6 00:02:55,449 --> 00:02:56,449 Left... 7 00:02:56,631 --> 00:02:57,721 Turn! 8 00:02:58,965 --> 00:03:00,315 New guard... 9 00:03:00,706 --> 00:03:02,786 Slow... march! 10 00:03:03,973 --> 00:03:06,253 New guard... halt! 11 00:03:08,740 --> 00:03:12,210 New guard... present... arms! 12 00:03:23,189 --> 00:03:25,939 Old guard... shoulder... arms! 13 00:03:26,908 --> 00:03:29,768 New guard... shoulder... arms! 14 00:03:31,189 --> 00:03:34,199 Old guard... order... arms! 15 00:03:34,510 --> 00:03:36,920 New guard... stand at... 16 00:03:37,272 --> 00:03:38,302 Ease! 17 00:03:42,631 --> 00:03:44,281 Look! The Prince! 18 00:03:53,205 --> 00:03:54,665 Fine body of men, the guards... 19 00:03:54,699 --> 00:03:56,209 And no soldier in the world like them. 20 00:03:56,254 --> 00:03:57,434 By gad, you're right, sir! 21 00:03:57,454 --> 00:04:00,184 Beer and beef, that's the stuff that makes soldiers. 22 00:04:00,209 --> 00:04:02,459 Besides, it gives a man... a figure. 23 00:04:06,359 --> 00:04:08,379 Have you seen today's "Times" sir? 24 00:04:08,486 --> 00:04:09,486 No William. 25 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:11,160 - The news from Paris. - Yes. 26 00:04:11,537 --> 00:04:13,787 Over 50 people guillotined in one day. 27 00:04:13,901 --> 00:04:15,871 Damnable, useless cruelty. 28 00:04:15,903 --> 00:04:19,083 Well, what can you expect from foreigners with no sporting instinct? 29 00:04:19,113 --> 00:04:21,563 Gad, if it wasn't for our fox hunting and our pheasant shooting... 30 00:04:21,582 --> 00:04:23,362 I dare say we should be cruel too. 31 00:04:23,872 --> 00:04:26,542 Let's hope the scarlet Pimpernel will save some of the rest. 32 00:04:26,568 --> 00:04:28,728 - Do you know who he is, sir? - No. 33 00:04:29,056 --> 00:04:31,136 But I confess, I feel a little prouder... 34 00:04:31,407 --> 00:04:33,207 When I remember that he is an Englishman. 35 00:04:32,712 --> 00:04:34,122 Did you read this, sir? 36 00:04:33,275 --> 00:04:34,275 Whoever he is... 37 00:04:34,381 --> 00:04:36,111 He'll have his work cut out in Paris. 38 00:06:15,285 --> 00:06:17,515 There they go again. It's always the same. 39 00:06:17,549 --> 00:06:19,909 The drums roll, the knife falls... 40 00:06:19,957 --> 00:06:22,947 And another aristocrat parts company with his head. 41 00:06:23,743 --> 00:06:25,153 Very monotonous. 42 00:06:25,366 --> 00:06:27,866 And so clumsy, that great ugly machine. 43 00:06:29,523 --> 00:06:32,253 When all they need is a sharper razor. 44 00:06:32,812 --> 00:06:34,322 A quick wrist and flick! 45 00:06:34,405 --> 00:06:35,335 Here, steady! 46 00:06:35,365 --> 00:06:36,985 Ho-ho, you're all right, partner. 47 00:06:37,882 --> 00:06:40,412 I wish they'd give me a few aristocrats to shave. 48 00:06:40,632 --> 00:06:41,532 Eh, Jacques? 49 00:06:41,585 --> 00:06:43,385 Then we should see some sport. 50 00:06:43,413 --> 00:06:44,393 And you would! 51 00:06:44,413 --> 00:06:46,573 When you see me dealing with the Scarlet Pimpernel. 52 00:06:46,605 --> 00:06:48,595 - The what? - The Scarlet Pimpernel! 53 00:06:48,824 --> 00:06:50,334 Haven't you heard? 54 00:06:50,636 --> 00:06:54,736 There's a band of Englishmen helping these cursed aristos out of the country. 55 00:06:55,127 --> 00:06:58,407 Their chief is the only man who ever cheated Madame Guillotine. 56 00:07:00,241 --> 00:07:02,771 He's known by the title of the Scarlet Pimpernel. 57 00:07:03,137 --> 00:07:04,417 Who is he? 58 00:07:04,502 --> 00:07:06,242 Oh... that's the mystery. 59 00:07:45,387 --> 00:07:47,407 So you're a farmer from Nordesque, are you? 60 00:07:47,632 --> 00:07:48,652 Yes, sir. 61 00:07:59,072 --> 00:08:03,092 You thought you could fool me with a disguise like that! 62 00:08:03,635 --> 00:08:06,225 Well, I'll keep this wig of yours... 63 00:08:06,367 --> 00:08:09,487 Because after tomorrow you won't have a head to put it on! 64 00:08:10,955 --> 00:08:13,605 And I shall be delighted to visit Madame Guillotine... 65 00:08:13,634 --> 00:08:18,164 And make the acquaintance of the only decent person left in France. 66 00:08:18,644 --> 00:08:21,714 Captain, I say "Death to the Republic..." 67 00:08:21,733 --> 00:08:23,223 and long live the King!" 68 00:08:23,249 --> 00:08:24,779 Take him away! 69 00:08:30,698 --> 00:08:32,008 Stupid fool! 70 00:08:32,757 --> 00:08:35,627 That makes the third aristocrat I've caught this week. 71 00:08:37,226 --> 00:08:39,826 I can smell 'em through any disguise. 72 00:09:12,196 --> 00:09:14,146 Thank heaven for the game of chess. 73 00:09:14,541 --> 00:09:17,991 It enables us to forget the more disagreeable realities of life. 74 00:09:18,639 --> 00:09:20,619 I'm not so sure it is a good thing. 75 00:09:20,831 --> 00:09:23,761 We've been too detached from reality all our lives. 76 00:09:24,128 --> 00:09:25,718 That's what caused the revolution. 77 00:09:25,917 --> 00:09:27,997 - Possibly. - Undoubtedly! 78 00:09:28,076 --> 00:09:31,306 If we'd only had eyes to see our own follies, we shouldn't be here now... 79 00:09:31,644 --> 00:09:33,064 Waiting to be shaved... 80 00:09:33,239 --> 00:09:34,749 By the national razor. 81 00:09:36,719 --> 00:09:38,319 Which is the Count de Tournay? 82 00:09:38,716 --> 00:09:40,316 I am the Count de Tournay's daughter. 83 00:09:40,793 --> 00:09:42,723 My father is over there playing the chess. 84 00:09:43,506 --> 00:09:44,566 This is my mother. 85 00:09:50,074 --> 00:09:51,564 The Count de Tournay? 86 00:09:55,765 --> 00:09:57,685 If you will look at the passage I have marked... 87 00:09:57,785 --> 00:09:59,255 Your spirits will be uplifted. 88 00:09:59,281 --> 00:10:01,241 We are not afraid to die, Father. 89 00:10:01,542 --> 00:10:04,072 Even so, it is sometimes better to live. 90 00:10:23,096 --> 00:10:25,156 - How many, Captain? - Sixty-four. 91 00:10:25,208 --> 00:10:28,178 Robespierre gives Madame Guillotine extra fodder today. 92 00:10:31,786 --> 00:10:33,746 The former Duc de Tours. 93 00:10:34,670 --> 00:10:36,880 The former Abbé de Saint Preux. 94 00:10:37,394 --> 00:10:39,904 The former Count and Countess de Larnai. 95 00:10:40,866 --> 00:10:42,636 The former Madame de Nijon. 96 00:10:43,117 --> 00:10:45,097 The former Count d'Eterais. 97 00:10:45,794 --> 00:10:48,354 The former Marquis de Jouvence and family. 98 00:10:49,469 --> 00:10:51,759 The former Marquis de Robeaupier. 99 00:10:52,328 --> 00:10:54,238 The two Countesses Herret. 100 00:10:55,169 --> 00:10:57,369 The former Mademoiselle de Bournard. 101 00:10:58,282 --> 00:11:01,262 The two former Duchesses Passy and Boniveaux. 102 00:11:02,754 --> 00:11:04,584 The former Marquis de Marais. 103 00:11:05,518 --> 00:11:07,928 The former Count de Tournay and family. 104 00:11:10,620 --> 00:11:12,730 The former Countess de Cherainville. 105 00:11:13,521 --> 00:11:15,331 The former Madame de Piccard. 106 00:11:15,761 --> 00:11:16,761 Come. 107 00:11:17,069 --> 00:11:18,909 The former Count d'Arblai. 108 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:41,360 - Are you de Tournay? - I am. 109 00:11:41,501 --> 00:11:44,551 You are remanded. Citizen Robespierre wants to see you. 110 00:11:44,658 --> 00:11:46,748 - Thank God! - The rest of you, get on! 111 00:11:46,801 --> 00:11:47,811 Take him inside! 112 00:11:47,831 --> 00:11:49,481 Come on! Come on! 113 00:12:15,527 --> 00:12:16,887 Get out of the way! 114 00:12:17,347 --> 00:12:18,437 Get out! 115 00:12:20,206 --> 00:12:22,316 You must have courage, Suzanne. 116 00:12:24,484 --> 00:12:25,714 Remember... 117 00:12:25,733 --> 00:12:28,093 The Scarlet Pimpernel is waiting to save us. 118 00:12:28,117 --> 00:12:30,197 He's never failed to keep his promise. 119 00:12:32,696 --> 00:12:34,306 But it's too late! 120 00:12:47,901 --> 00:12:50,261 Long live the King of France! 121 00:12:53,727 --> 00:12:55,867 Long live the King of France! 122 00:13:46,978 --> 00:13:48,798 Look at me whip, me hearties. 123 00:13:48,941 --> 00:13:50,161 Look at it! 124 00:13:50,196 --> 00:13:52,346 Three and twenty locks of hair in it. 125 00:13:52,498 --> 00:13:54,108 There they are... There's... 126 00:13:54,300 --> 00:13:56,310 There's the Duc de Rouilly. 127 00:13:56,605 --> 00:13:58,835 There's his handsome wife, the Duchess. 128 00:13:59,222 --> 00:14:01,102 And here's the hair of her lover... 129 00:14:01,199 --> 00:14:03,759 - The handsome... - Where's your passport, hag? 130 00:14:04,055 --> 00:14:06,055 He takes me for an aristocrat. 131 00:14:09,385 --> 00:14:10,845 Well, you're right, Captain. 132 00:14:10,951 --> 00:14:12,791 Can't be too careful, can you? 133 00:14:13,137 --> 00:14:15,837 No, you can't be too... Here, here's me passport. 134 00:14:19,387 --> 00:14:22,527 This says "Citizeness Renard and grandson." 135 00:14:23,045 --> 00:14:24,245 Where's the grandson? 136 00:14:24,477 --> 00:14:26,177 He's in the cart, poor darling. 137 00:14:26,209 --> 00:14:28,109 Yes? What's the matter with him? 138 00:14:28,165 --> 00:14:29,675 He's got the plague. 139 00:14:31,163 --> 00:14:33,473 - The horrible black plague. - Plague? 140 00:14:33,498 --> 00:14:34,698 Yes. 141 00:14:34,915 --> 00:14:38,035 I don't think I shall get him alive as far as Chambois. 142 00:14:38,756 --> 00:14:41,186 Give me... give me a light from your pipe, will you Captain? 143 00:14:41,219 --> 00:14:42,659 Keep away from me with your plague! 144 00:14:42,688 --> 00:14:43,798 Get out of here, quick! 145 00:14:43,826 --> 00:14:45,590 And when you come back, try to pass another gate. 146 00:14:45,614 --> 00:14:47,274 For you won't pass through this one again! 147 00:14:47,297 --> 00:14:49,217 You are right, Captain. You are right. 148 00:14:49,266 --> 00:14:52,216 But I'll be back... somehow. 149 00:15:15,273 --> 00:15:17,373 - Who's in charge here? - I am. 150 00:15:17,712 --> 00:15:19,992 An old hag of a woman will pass this way in a cart. 151 00:15:20,039 --> 00:15:21,969 You are to stop her, and arrest her. 152 00:15:22,328 --> 00:15:24,198 Did you say an old hag? 153 00:15:24,639 --> 00:15:25,659 You heard me. 154 00:15:25,921 --> 00:15:28,391 But, but she passed through here some time ago. 155 00:15:28,454 --> 00:15:30,934 - Her passport was... - You miserable fool! 156 00:15:30,983 --> 00:15:33,563 You blundering idiot! Did you search the cart? 157 00:15:34,030 --> 00:15:37,610 No, no, I... her grandson was inside with the plague. 158 00:15:37,668 --> 00:15:41,028 - Would you expect me to expose... - You were expected to use your brains! 159 00:15:41,331 --> 00:15:42,931 Now I see you haven't any! 160 00:15:42,975 --> 00:15:46,885 That sick grandson was really three aristocrats snatched from the guillotine! 161 00:15:47,251 --> 00:15:48,941 Ten thousand hells! 162 00:15:49,328 --> 00:15:50,958 And the old hag, who was she? 163 00:15:51,034 --> 00:15:53,334 The old hag, my clever Captain... 164 00:15:53,501 --> 00:15:56,141 Was that cursed Englishman, the Scarlet Pimpernel. 165 00:15:56,839 --> 00:15:59,459 - Forward, we'll catch him this time! - Open the gates! 166 00:17:05,559 --> 00:17:06,669 What's that? 167 00:17:07,273 --> 00:17:08,273 What? 168 00:17:10,935 --> 00:17:12,685 Sounds like a troop of horsemen. 169 00:17:16,065 --> 00:17:17,525 We're being pursued! 170 00:17:43,332 --> 00:17:45,342 Don't be frightened, Ladies. You are among friends. 171 00:17:45,365 --> 00:17:48,305 - But this soldiers? - My friends, Mademoiselle, and yours. 172 00:17:48,336 --> 00:17:49,956 Are you the Scarlet Pimpernel? 173 00:17:49,987 --> 00:17:52,427 I am only a humble instrument in the hands of our great leader. 174 00:17:52,451 --> 00:17:54,311 - How many are you? - Twenty, madam. 175 00:17:54,333 --> 00:17:55,943 One to command, nineteen to obey. 176 00:17:55,962 --> 00:17:58,672 - Shall we see your leader? - I'm sorry, I must ask you to hurry. 177 00:18:32,043 --> 00:18:34,123 - Where's de Tournay? - Taken back into prison. 178 00:18:34,147 --> 00:18:35,297 - Why? - We don't know. 179 00:18:35,324 --> 00:18:36,774 So we have to come back and take him. 180 00:18:37,024 --> 00:18:38,954 - How are things at Calais? - Lawson's there. 181 00:18:38,971 --> 00:18:40,746 - And Ashurst? - He hadn't arrived when we left. 182 00:18:40,770 --> 00:18:41,470 Oh hadn't he? 183 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:43,127 His time sense is defective... that's twice. 184 00:18:43,151 --> 00:18:44,251 They may have arrested him. 185 00:18:44,272 --> 00:18:46,105 They're very careful at the Channel ports nowadays. 186 00:18:46,129 --> 00:18:47,996 My order to you is that you're not to be arrested. 187 00:18:48,020 --> 00:18:49,610 And I expect my orders to be obeyed. 188 00:18:49,634 --> 00:18:50,744 Yes Percy. 189 00:18:51,225 --> 00:18:52,835 You, Wilmot and Grant go back to Paris. 190 00:18:52,870 --> 00:18:54,430 My brother-in-law will follow you there. 191 00:18:54,927 --> 00:18:57,154 All three of you will get your next instructions from Quentin. 192 00:18:57,178 --> 00:18:58,618 Well, goodbye. 193 00:18:58,665 --> 00:19:00,285 And remember... don't get caught. 194 00:19:00,311 --> 00:19:01,601 - Right. - Right. 195 00:19:01,682 --> 00:19:03,382 - Good luck! - Goodbye. 196 00:19:03,412 --> 00:19:04,542 Go! 197 00:19:07,671 --> 00:19:08,741 Giddap! 198 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:22,700 Well... 199 00:19:23,698 --> 00:19:25,428 Why did they keep de Tournay back? 200 00:19:25,454 --> 00:19:27,444 Because Robespierre wanted to see him. 201 00:19:27,543 --> 00:19:30,353 And Robespierre wants to see him because the Ambassador of the Republic, 202 00:19:30,372 --> 00:19:31,522 has come over from London. 203 00:19:31,563 --> 00:19:32,623 Chauvelin? 204 00:19:32,652 --> 00:19:33,532 Why? 205 00:19:33,552 --> 00:19:35,262 All in your honor, Percy. 206 00:19:35,288 --> 00:19:37,978 Your work is becoming even more dangerous than it was. 207 00:19:38,009 --> 00:19:39,479 Our work, Armand. 208 00:19:41,020 --> 00:19:42,430 You go back to Paris at once. 209 00:19:43,025 --> 00:19:45,055 Find out everything you can about Chauvelin. 210 00:19:45,194 --> 00:19:46,884 If he goes to London, you go too. 211 00:19:48,061 --> 00:19:49,851 Our most dangerous enemy... 212 00:19:50,317 --> 00:19:51,897 Is citizen Chauvelin. 213 00:20:05,302 --> 00:20:06,532 Citizen Chauvelin. 214 00:20:06,716 --> 00:20:07,736 Citizen Chauvelin! 215 00:20:11,497 --> 00:20:13,624 My dear Chauvelin, I'm very sorry that I have to ask you 216 00:20:13,648 --> 00:20:15,638 to undertake the journey to London. 217 00:20:15,995 --> 00:20:19,285 But this matter of the Scarlet Pimpernel has become a national menace. 218 00:20:21,749 --> 00:20:23,359 How can you expect me to detect him 219 00:20:23,387 --> 00:20:24,967 in a country that hates us like the devil 220 00:20:24,991 --> 00:20:26,571 and puts every obstacle in my way? 221 00:20:26,596 --> 00:20:28,656 We expect you to overcome obstacles 222 00:20:29,028 --> 00:20:30,818 like our generals in the field. 223 00:20:31,182 --> 00:20:33,952 They know that to lose the battle means the guillotine. 224 00:20:34,679 --> 00:20:36,119 Have you any plans? 225 00:20:37,771 --> 00:20:38,841 Naturally. 226 00:20:39,796 --> 00:20:42,626 We may assume that the Scarlet Pimpernel and his gang... 227 00:20:42,693 --> 00:20:43,953 speaks perfect French. 228 00:20:44,828 --> 00:20:47,198 They belong therefore to a class that has been brought up 229 00:20:47,221 --> 00:20:49,051 by French nurses and French tutors. 230 00:20:49,207 --> 00:20:50,547 So far not bad. 231 00:20:51,129 --> 00:20:52,999 I have a list of all the likely names. 232 00:20:53,599 --> 00:20:55,199 I have them watched day and night. 233 00:20:55,253 --> 00:20:57,133 Sooner or later, I'll draw the net. 234 00:20:57,295 --> 00:20:59,375 You think de Tournay might be useful? 235 00:20:59,607 --> 00:21:00,687 Possibly. 236 00:21:05,254 --> 00:21:06,294 De Tournay, 237 00:21:12,260 --> 00:21:13,950 the former Count de Tournay. 238 00:21:14,016 --> 00:21:16,926 Former Ambassador to the former King of France in London. 239 00:21:17,299 --> 00:21:18,569 Citizen Chauvelin. 240 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,930 Ambassador of the French Republic in London. 241 00:21:21,277 --> 00:21:23,017 De Tournay, I want to make you an offer. 242 00:21:23,859 --> 00:21:25,289 We offer you your life. 243 00:21:26,394 --> 00:21:28,014 All we ask in return... 244 00:21:28,047 --> 00:21:30,587 is that you merely get in touch with your many English friends... 245 00:21:30,610 --> 00:21:32,140 and soon you will be able to tell us 246 00:21:32,161 --> 00:21:34,831 who is the man known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. 247 00:21:34,874 --> 00:21:36,664 You want me to be a spy? 248 00:21:36,996 --> 00:21:39,816 You have been too long in politics not to be a realist. 249 00:21:40,082 --> 00:21:41,892 A little piece of information... 250 00:21:42,113 --> 00:21:43,293 we give you your life. 251 00:21:43,312 --> 00:21:44,722 God gave me my life... 252 00:21:44,742 --> 00:21:47,102 He will take it away as soon as it pleases Him. 253 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,630 And now my family has gone to the guillotine... 254 00:21:50,654 --> 00:21:52,244 My one wish is to follow. 255 00:21:54,709 --> 00:21:58,069 Would it alter your outlook to hear that your family is alive? 256 00:21:58,154 --> 00:21:59,504 Don't trifle with me. 257 00:21:59,538 --> 00:22:02,618 I sent them to the guillotine for the future happiness of the human race... 258 00:22:02,716 --> 00:22:04,146 But I do not allow torture. 259 00:22:04,175 --> 00:22:05,105 Where are they? 260 00:22:05,165 --> 00:22:07,355 I saw them being dragged towards the tumbrel. 261 00:22:07,508 --> 00:22:08,758 On their way to the guillotine 262 00:22:08,785 --> 00:22:10,885 the band of the Scarlet Pimpernel snatched them away. 263 00:22:10,911 --> 00:22:12,061 Where are they? 264 00:22:12,088 --> 00:22:14,418 Probably in England by this time. 265 00:22:24,053 --> 00:22:26,603 To His Majesty King George III. 266 00:22:26,823 --> 00:22:30,133 God bless him for his hospitality to us poor exiles. 267 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:34,420 To King Louis of France... 268 00:22:34,617 --> 00:22:36,287 May God protect him. 269 00:22:40,283 --> 00:22:41,863 And to your husband, madam. 270 00:22:42,504 --> 00:22:44,554 I hope the Scarlet Pimpernel and you gentlemen 271 00:22:44,585 --> 00:22:46,345 will rescue him, as you did us. 272 00:22:47,110 --> 00:22:48,560 The Scarlet Pimpernel... 273 00:22:49,098 --> 00:22:51,198 What a droll name... What does it mean? 274 00:22:51,227 --> 00:22:53,417 It is a humble wayside flower, mademoiselle. 275 00:22:53,803 --> 00:22:56,873 And it hides the identity of the best and bravest man in all the world. 276 00:22:57,148 --> 00:22:59,288 Do you know, Sir Andrew, my best friend in London 277 00:22:59,316 --> 00:23:00,516 Marguerite St. Just? 278 00:23:00,548 --> 00:23:02,068 Suzanne, how often am I to tell you 279 00:23:02,098 --> 00:23:04,568 I will not have that woman's name mentioned in my presence. 280 00:23:04,592 --> 00:23:06,932 But mother, you can't believe that dreadful story. 281 00:23:06,957 --> 00:23:08,967 - What story? - It's the truth. 282 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,200 Marguerite St. Just... 283 00:23:10,251 --> 00:23:13,371 Denounced the Marquis de St. Cyr and his family to the tribunal. 284 00:23:13,488 --> 00:23:15,198 They all went to the guillotine. 285 00:23:15,467 --> 00:23:17,897 - Marguerite St. Just? - Yes. 286 00:23:18,325 --> 00:23:19,855 She married an Englishman. 287 00:23:20,056 --> 00:23:21,256 Do you know her? 288 00:23:21,284 --> 00:23:22,674 Know her? 289 00:23:22,884 --> 00:23:25,194 Everybody in London knows Lady Blakeney. 290 00:23:41,211 --> 00:23:43,891 Lady Blakeney, have you something in your mouth? 291 00:23:45,690 --> 00:23:47,330 Not now, Mr. Romney. 292 00:23:47,414 --> 00:23:49,814 I can't do justice to that lovely face 293 00:23:49,838 --> 00:23:51,578 when it's all bulged out with bonbon. 294 00:23:51,611 --> 00:23:53,751 You may talk if you like, but no bonbon! 295 00:23:54,161 --> 00:23:56,111 And no gestures, please! 296 00:23:57,262 --> 00:23:58,592 All right, Mr. Romney. 297 00:24:02,227 --> 00:24:05,557 I'll tell you what it is about the Pimpernel that tantalizes me so. 298 00:24:05,710 --> 00:24:07,550 It is his insufferable modesty. 299 00:24:07,672 --> 00:24:09,112 There's no excuse for it! 300 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,411 It's maddening to think that somewhere there's a man as marvelous as that. 301 00:24:12,435 --> 00:24:13,725 And we never see him! 302 00:24:13,754 --> 00:24:15,384 He is of no use to us whatever! 303 00:24:15,406 --> 00:24:18,256 Lady Blakeney, I said no gestures, please! 304 00:24:18,292 --> 00:24:20,922 Oh, you must remember that I am a French woman... 305 00:24:20,952 --> 00:24:23,432 and when I talk I must use these as well as this. 306 00:24:32,162 --> 00:24:34,322 The de Tournay family arrived in Dover today. 307 00:24:34,347 --> 00:24:35,807 All except the father. 308 00:24:35,885 --> 00:24:37,435 We have to go back for him. 309 00:24:37,779 --> 00:24:39,979 It's going to be devilish awkward after what's happened. 310 00:24:40,014 --> 00:24:42,284 Well I'll go. So will Hastings if you'll let us. 311 00:24:42,319 --> 00:24:44,009 We will all go if it comes to that. 312 00:24:44,084 --> 00:24:45,864 But even so, we're only 20. 313 00:24:45,991 --> 00:24:48,101 Yesterday, 30 people went to the guillotine. 314 00:24:48,184 --> 00:24:50,164 Are you trying to suggest that there aren't enough of us? 315 00:24:50,186 --> 00:24:51,612 Perhaps that there isn't a decent Englishman 316 00:24:51,636 --> 00:24:53,186 that wouldn't be proud to join us. 317 00:24:53,239 --> 00:24:55,699 We could be 500, a thousand within a week. 318 00:24:55,820 --> 00:24:58,800 And within another week everyone of us would be a marked man. 319 00:24:59,347 --> 00:25:01,597 We shouldn't be able to rescue a single soul. 320 00:25:02,548 --> 00:25:04,148 Mere force is useless against people 321 00:25:04,175 --> 00:25:05,805 who are neither cowards nor fools. 322 00:25:05,896 --> 00:25:07,776 We must match courage with courage... 323 00:25:07,945 --> 00:25:10,945 and cunning with still greater cunning if we're going to do anything at all. 324 00:25:11,098 --> 00:25:12,958 We are all willing to give our lives. 325 00:25:13,062 --> 00:25:14,552 But we must do more than that. 326 00:25:14,712 --> 00:25:16,432 We must mask our identities... 327 00:25:16,627 --> 00:25:18,447 Suffer the humiliation of being taken 328 00:25:18,471 --> 00:25:21,831 for fops, fools, nitwits... cowards. 329 00:25:22,412 --> 00:25:25,562 So many people die every day that could be saved. 330 00:25:25,598 --> 00:25:27,208 You think I don't feel that? 331 00:25:27,516 --> 00:25:30,076 You think I like sitting there in the shadow of the knife... 332 00:25:30,248 --> 00:25:32,238 while one head falls after another? 333 00:25:32,318 --> 00:25:34,048 People I know and love. 334 00:25:34,099 --> 00:25:36,119 Innocent people... kindly people... 335 00:25:36,399 --> 00:25:37,999 Herded like sheep... 336 00:25:38,488 --> 00:25:39,948 butchered like cattle... 337 00:25:40,141 --> 00:25:42,851 by men who make high-sounding principles and excuses 338 00:25:42,876 --> 00:25:44,576 for the most bestial cruelty. 339 00:25:44,711 --> 00:25:47,641 Robespierre's liberty, his equality... 340 00:25:51,311 --> 00:25:52,781 Well... 341 00:25:53,123 --> 00:25:56,023 sink me, if it isn't Colonel Ramsbottom. 342 00:25:58,565 --> 00:26:00,645 Well. How are you Ramsbottom? 343 00:26:01,032 --> 00:26:02,562 Winterbottom, Sir! 344 00:26:05,351 --> 00:26:07,821 Ramsbottom... what a ridiculous mistake... 345 00:26:10,817 --> 00:26:12,697 Allow me to explain, Colonel... 346 00:26:13,115 --> 00:26:14,855 Here's that ass, Blakeney! 347 00:26:15,278 --> 00:26:16,558 I'm off! 348 00:26:26,539 --> 00:26:28,999 Odd's blood, this club wants cheering up. 349 00:26:29,510 --> 00:26:31,670 Sink me, the place is a mausoleum. 350 00:26:32,002 --> 00:26:33,552 Are you being offensive, Sir? 351 00:26:33,580 --> 00:26:35,390 Who Sir? Me, sir? No, sir! 352 00:26:36,404 --> 00:26:38,934 Stab me. I'm bubbling over with good humor this morning. 353 00:26:38,962 --> 00:26:41,212 Would you believe me, I've just written a masterpiece? 354 00:26:41,234 --> 00:26:42,584 - Who, sir? You, sir? - Me, sir! 355 00:26:42,601 --> 00:26:43,691 - No, sir! - Yes, sir! 356 00:26:43,734 --> 00:26:45,924 All about this mysterious Pimpernel fellow. 357 00:26:46,187 --> 00:26:47,817 How it came to me, heaven only knows 358 00:26:47,839 --> 00:26:49,554 because it was the busiest moment of the day... 359 00:26:49,578 --> 00:26:51,248 Darn, I was tying my cravat. 360 00:26:51,325 --> 00:26:52,835 Oh well, here it is. 361 00:26:53,851 --> 00:26:55,381 "The Scarlet Pimpernel" 362 00:26:55,409 --> 00:26:57,649 by Sir Percival Blakeney, Baronet. 363 00:26:57,677 --> 00:26:59,417 - What? - Well, that's the title. 364 00:26:59,764 --> 00:27:01,034 "They seek him here, 365 00:27:01,090 --> 00:27:02,440 "they seek him there. 366 00:27:02,472 --> 00:27:04,792 "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. 367 00:27:05,293 --> 00:27:07,113 "Is he in heaven? 368 00:27:07,206 --> 00:27:08,766 "Is he in hell? 369 00:27:09,046 --> 00:27:11,436 That damned, elusive Pimpernel." 370 00:27:11,482 --> 00:27:12,342 What? 371 00:27:12,369 --> 00:27:13,569 Hmm, not bad! 372 00:27:13,595 --> 00:27:15,005 Not bad? It's damned good! 373 00:27:15,046 --> 00:27:17,256 I'll write it out, then you can all learn it. 374 00:27:17,616 --> 00:27:18,686 Yes... 375 00:27:19,109 --> 00:27:21,459 Well... Good day, gentlemen. 376 00:27:21,659 --> 00:27:23,279 Goodbye. Higgenbottom. 377 00:27:23,302 --> 00:27:24,592 Winterbottom, curse you! 378 00:27:24,616 --> 00:27:26,926 I beg your pardon? Didn't I say Winterbottom? 379 00:27:27,123 --> 00:27:28,823 Bunch of young jackanapes! 380 00:27:30,890 --> 00:27:33,500 They're all alike, this fashionable puppies. 381 00:27:33,630 --> 00:27:34,940 Insufferable! 382 00:27:35,093 --> 00:27:36,463 What that young man needs... 383 00:27:36,493 --> 00:27:38,553 Is a year or two of hard campaigning. 384 00:27:38,574 --> 00:27:40,064 Facing powder... 385 00:27:41,711 --> 00:27:42,861 and shot... 386 00:27:43,016 --> 00:27:44,526 undergoing privation. 387 00:27:44,566 --> 00:27:47,616 I can't imagine Blakeney running into much danger. 388 00:27:48,463 --> 00:27:49,693 Not he! 389 00:27:50,436 --> 00:27:52,186 He doesn't belong to our vintage. 390 00:27:53,733 --> 00:27:54,633 It's not my fault! 391 00:27:54,654 --> 00:27:56,664 It's a matter of infinitely small importance to me... 392 00:27:56,688 --> 00:27:57,908 whose fault it is. 393 00:27:58,892 --> 00:28:01,162 The man who could put starch in my jabot... 394 00:28:01,185 --> 00:28:04,235 Is equally capable of putting poison in my coffee. 395 00:28:07,056 --> 00:28:07,926 There, you see? 396 00:28:07,955 --> 00:28:10,265 I'm a laughingstock, and rightly so. 397 00:28:10,590 --> 00:28:12,230 Look at the cursed thing. 398 00:28:12,251 --> 00:28:14,211 Sticking out like a barber's pole. 399 00:28:14,513 --> 00:28:16,463 Sink me, the thing is a disaster. 400 00:28:17,524 --> 00:28:19,554 Go away, Brinker, you dreadful fellow. 401 00:28:19,912 --> 00:28:21,302 Ladies... 402 00:28:21,333 --> 00:28:22,703 Your servant. 403 00:28:23,079 --> 00:28:24,399 Marguerite... 404 00:28:24,948 --> 00:28:26,098 your slave. 405 00:28:29,354 --> 00:28:30,814 Ah, Romney. 406 00:28:31,293 --> 00:28:32,473 How are you? 407 00:28:32,587 --> 00:28:34,507 And how is the portrait progressing? 408 00:28:42,155 --> 00:28:44,035 The eyes are wrong, aren't they? 409 00:28:44,780 --> 00:28:47,250 And is the nose all right? 410 00:28:51,750 --> 00:28:52,690 You know... 411 00:28:52,713 --> 00:28:54,713 I rather think you missed the mouth... 412 00:28:54,731 --> 00:28:55,851 altogether. 413 00:28:57,149 --> 00:28:58,579 Yes, you have. 414 00:28:59,128 --> 00:29:01,338 Otherwise, it's the image of her. 415 00:29:03,438 --> 00:29:05,118 I think that will be enough for today. 416 00:29:05,141 --> 00:29:06,431 Poor Mr. Romney. 417 00:29:06,721 --> 00:29:08,201 You are tired, and so am I. 418 00:29:08,222 --> 00:29:09,062 Tired? 419 00:29:09,102 --> 00:29:10,702 Zounds, me too. 420 00:29:10,890 --> 00:29:12,190 You know, dear lady... 421 00:29:12,249 --> 00:29:15,079 I've just been to Bath to be cured of the fatigue. 422 00:29:16,024 --> 00:29:18,484 And now I'm so fatigued by the cure that I... 423 00:29:18,716 --> 00:29:21,356 I really think that I shall have to go to Bath again... 424 00:29:21,625 --> 00:29:23,165 to be cured of the fatigue. 425 00:29:25,986 --> 00:29:27,496 It has been a charming party. 426 00:29:27,529 --> 00:29:29,009 - Goodbye! - Goodbye. 427 00:29:29,093 --> 00:29:30,533 - Goodbye. - Goodbye! 428 00:29:30,619 --> 00:29:32,369 Bye, Lady Blakeney, thank you. 429 00:29:32,484 --> 00:29:33,744 Bye, Sir Percy... 430 00:29:36,676 --> 00:29:38,286 Goodbye, Sir Percy... 431 00:29:45,984 --> 00:29:47,374 Goodbye, Sir Percy! 432 00:29:47,391 --> 00:29:48,981 Goodbye, Goodbye... 433 00:29:49,367 --> 00:29:50,727 Goodbye... 434 00:30:16,976 --> 00:30:18,356 What do you think of it? 435 00:30:19,501 --> 00:30:20,841 It's clever... 436 00:30:21,286 --> 00:30:23,056 But there's something lacking. 437 00:30:23,431 --> 00:30:24,431 What? 438 00:30:25,045 --> 00:30:26,215 I don't know. 439 00:30:26,992 --> 00:30:28,342 There's a look... 440 00:30:28,451 --> 00:30:30,081 A look in the eyes... 441 00:30:30,851 --> 00:30:32,081 He's lost it. 442 00:30:34,473 --> 00:30:35,943 Perhaps, I've lost it. 443 00:30:40,018 --> 00:30:41,698 Perhaps it was happiness. 444 00:30:42,932 --> 00:30:44,372 Good gad, my dear! 445 00:30:44,416 --> 00:30:46,796 How you could be unhappy. I can't imagine. 446 00:30:47,475 --> 00:30:48,525 Can't you? 447 00:30:49,623 --> 00:30:51,613 Percy... Can't you? 448 00:30:51,633 --> 00:30:53,543 Oh, cursed if I can. 449 00:30:53,808 --> 00:30:56,408 Why, you're the most courted woman in town. 450 00:30:56,433 --> 00:30:58,523 - By whom? - By everybody. 451 00:30:58,561 --> 00:30:59,741 Except you! 452 00:30:59,809 --> 00:31:02,109 Dear me, my dear, I'm your husband. 453 00:31:03,828 --> 00:31:06,198 Months after we were married, we were still happy... 454 00:31:06,474 --> 00:31:08,274 And then came this... 455 00:31:08,479 --> 00:31:09,839 Estrangement. 456 00:31:10,044 --> 00:31:12,334 Which Heaven knows, is none of my making. 457 00:31:12,416 --> 00:31:14,036 Can you honestly say that? 458 00:31:14,092 --> 00:31:16,382 Can you honestly deny that you've changed? 459 00:31:18,356 --> 00:31:19,516 So changed... 460 00:31:19,541 --> 00:31:21,141 That I scarcely know you. 461 00:31:22,269 --> 00:31:23,929 You're never with me now. 462 00:31:24,930 --> 00:31:27,310 You're always away on some pretext or other. 463 00:31:30,528 --> 00:31:31,978 I'm always alone. 464 00:31:36,866 --> 00:31:39,356 Then I've mighty good news for you, my dear. 465 00:31:39,933 --> 00:31:41,923 Your brother's arriving from Paris. 466 00:31:42,061 --> 00:31:43,611 - Armand? - Yes. 467 00:31:43,774 --> 00:31:44,704 When? 468 00:31:44,727 --> 00:31:45,897 At any moment. 469 00:31:46,462 --> 00:31:49,102 And then you won't be alone, will you? 470 00:31:52,782 --> 00:31:54,222 When am I going to see you again? 471 00:31:54,253 --> 00:31:55,663 Whenever you wish to. 472 00:31:55,970 --> 00:31:57,560 Well then, every day. 473 00:31:57,589 --> 00:31:58,619 Suzanne! 474 00:32:33,930 --> 00:32:35,350 Where's the chief? 475 00:32:36,804 --> 00:32:39,244 He went to town yesterday as soon as he arrived here. 476 00:32:39,261 --> 00:32:40,761 - Any order for us? - Yes... 477 00:32:40,914 --> 00:32:43,544 We have to wait here till tonight for a message from Armand St. Just. 478 00:32:43,567 --> 00:32:44,567 Right. 479 00:32:56,179 --> 00:32:58,259 - Did you follow them? - Yes. 480 00:32:58,539 --> 00:33:00,879 A sailor gave a letter to Sir Andrew Ffoulkes. 481 00:33:00,964 --> 00:33:02,124 Did you get it? 482 00:33:02,146 --> 00:33:03,576 It wasn't easy, but... 483 00:33:03,915 --> 00:33:05,605 We had six men there. 484 00:33:06,585 --> 00:33:07,805 Where are they now? 485 00:33:07,841 --> 00:33:09,471 Gagged and bound on the ship. 486 00:33:09,531 --> 00:33:10,691 And the letter? 487 00:33:22,155 --> 00:33:23,269 You will release them tomorrow. 488 00:33:23,293 --> 00:33:24,803 Watch every move they make. 489 00:33:38,659 --> 00:33:39,819 Maurier... 490 00:33:39,877 --> 00:33:41,177 Go over to France at once. 491 00:33:41,205 --> 00:33:43,165 The moment St. Just returns, arrest him. 492 00:33:45,312 --> 00:33:46,962 Armand St. Just. 493 00:33:49,011 --> 00:33:50,781 Marguerite St. Just... 494 00:33:52,707 --> 00:33:54,247 The famous actress... 495 00:33:55,786 --> 00:33:58,756 She will give a great performance by Republican command... 496 00:33:59,465 --> 00:34:01,215 For her brother's sake. 497 00:34:03,337 --> 00:34:05,977 Percy, I don't want Armand to go back to France. 498 00:34:06,178 --> 00:34:08,538 If you'll help me we can keep him in England. 499 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:11,940 He'll settle down here, marry a nice girl... 500 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:13,760 And have lovely children. 501 00:34:14,751 --> 00:34:16,371 What a dreadful prospect. 502 00:34:16,968 --> 00:34:20,118 What has poor Armand done to be sentenced to matrimony? 503 00:34:20,939 --> 00:34:23,059 You should know better, my dear. 504 00:34:38,397 --> 00:34:40,317 You're unhappy... Why? 505 00:34:42,052 --> 00:34:44,072 Armand, I have the satisfaction of knowing 506 00:34:44,092 --> 00:34:45,462 that the biggest fool in England 507 00:34:45,483 --> 00:34:47,703 has the most complete contempt for his wife. 508 00:34:47,730 --> 00:34:49,880 Percy? How did it happen? 509 00:34:51,734 --> 00:34:53,094 I don't know. 510 00:34:54,438 --> 00:34:56,388 I only know that when I married him 511 00:34:56,416 --> 00:34:57,586 he was a man. 512 00:34:57,958 --> 00:34:59,388 He was my lover. 513 00:35:00,148 --> 00:35:02,288 I was glad to give up everything for him. 514 00:35:04,119 --> 00:35:05,419 And now... 515 00:35:07,550 --> 00:35:09,120 You mustn't leave me, Armand! 516 00:35:09,166 --> 00:35:11,206 I need you... I'm all alone. 517 00:35:11,278 --> 00:35:12,707 I can't stay. 518 00:35:12,708 --> 00:35:14,138 You're going back to France? 519 00:35:14,168 --> 00:35:15,178 But it's not safe! 520 00:35:15,203 --> 00:35:16,853 For me? I'm no aristocrat. 521 00:35:16,877 --> 00:35:18,647 For anyone under the terror. 522 00:35:18,682 --> 00:35:20,942 I shall look after the Blakeney estate in France. 523 00:35:21,005 --> 00:35:23,455 Oh, Percy is so rich! What does it mean to him? 524 00:35:24,528 --> 00:35:26,988 He is not even interested in his English estates. 525 00:35:28,131 --> 00:35:29,651 Since the terror he wouldn't go over to France 526 00:35:29,673 --> 00:35:31,573 for all the treasures in the world. 527 00:35:31,724 --> 00:35:33,754 Why should you risk your life for his money? 528 00:35:33,778 --> 00:35:35,488 Oh, I don't risk my life. 529 00:35:36,415 --> 00:35:37,915 Don't worry, darling. 530 00:35:50,525 --> 00:35:51,525 Percy? 531 00:35:51,557 --> 00:35:53,047 May I ask you something? 532 00:35:53,454 --> 00:35:55,544 What's happened to you and Marguerite? 533 00:35:57,582 --> 00:35:59,122 Marriage, I suppose. 534 00:35:59,203 --> 00:36:00,253 Why? 535 00:36:00,943 --> 00:36:03,033 You loved her once... I know. 536 00:36:04,876 --> 00:36:07,476 Do you remember the first family to go to the guillotine? 537 00:36:07,578 --> 00:36:08,768 The St. Cyrs. 538 00:36:09,829 --> 00:36:12,379 They told me it was Marguerite who denounced them. 539 00:36:12,410 --> 00:36:13,700 It was a lie! 540 00:36:15,075 --> 00:36:16,455 I wish I could believe that. 541 00:36:16,650 --> 00:36:17,980 Did you ask her? 542 00:36:18,009 --> 00:36:19,139 I did. 543 00:36:20,030 --> 00:36:21,280 She flashed back a "yes" 544 00:36:21,302 --> 00:36:23,402 as sharp as the knife of the guillotine. 545 00:36:26,421 --> 00:36:27,971 I watched that execution. 546 00:36:28,790 --> 00:36:30,010 The Marquis... 547 00:36:30,385 --> 00:36:31,535 His wife... 548 00:36:31,634 --> 00:36:32,874 His son. 549 00:36:34,773 --> 00:36:36,013 And it was my wife... 550 00:36:36,943 --> 00:36:38,263 Who put them there. 551 00:36:40,727 --> 00:36:42,837 So that's why you ceased to love her. 552 00:36:44,052 --> 00:36:45,402 What a tragedy. 553 00:36:46,081 --> 00:36:47,351 Ceased? 554 00:36:48,066 --> 00:36:49,876 I shall love her till I die. 555 00:36:50,793 --> 00:36:52,153 That's the tragedy. 556 00:36:55,712 --> 00:36:58,062 And it's to make up what she did to them... 557 00:36:58,209 --> 00:36:59,829 That you risk your own life 558 00:36:59,858 --> 00:37:01,958 week after week to rescue the others? 559 00:37:02,926 --> 00:37:04,556 Don't be so heroic, Armand. 560 00:37:04,774 --> 00:37:07,564 I got a smack in the eye, and I took refuge in sport. 561 00:37:07,707 --> 00:37:09,157 And what a sport! 562 00:37:09,420 --> 00:37:10,570 By gad, 563 00:37:10,592 --> 00:37:13,152 I think I shall give up fox hunting this winter. 564 00:37:23,081 --> 00:37:24,931 Now, what do you think of it? 565 00:37:25,605 --> 00:37:26,875 Monstrous fine, sir! 566 00:37:26,917 --> 00:37:28,277 Vastly becoming. 567 00:37:28,818 --> 00:37:31,018 Now, there's a coat you could wear with comfort. 568 00:37:31,055 --> 00:37:33,375 You know perfectly well I can wear nothing with comfort... 569 00:37:33,408 --> 00:37:34,898 Until Sir Percy says so. 570 00:37:34,965 --> 00:37:36,585 Where is that jackanapes? 571 00:37:36,672 --> 00:37:37,712 Who. Sir? 572 00:37:37,745 --> 00:37:38,855 You, sir! 573 00:37:38,929 --> 00:37:39,989 Here, sir! 574 00:37:40,817 --> 00:37:42,827 And now, tell Treadle what... 575 00:37:42,857 --> 00:37:44,467 What's wrong with this coat. 576 00:37:51,170 --> 00:37:52,630 The back is admirable. 577 00:37:53,219 --> 00:37:54,619 The front's fair. 578 00:37:55,352 --> 00:37:57,472 The collar is. Uh, possible. 579 00:37:59,242 --> 00:38:00,722 But the sleeve. Treadle. 580 00:38:01,110 --> 00:38:03,480 The cuff, my poor, benighted friend... 581 00:38:03,503 --> 00:38:05,683 That, Sir Percy, is the last words in cuffs! 582 00:38:05,686 --> 00:38:07,056 Oh, gad, I should hope so 583 00:38:07,089 --> 00:38:08,789 for there should never be another like it! 584 00:38:09,736 --> 00:38:12,046 Oh, come now, it's... It's not too bad. 585 00:38:12,072 --> 00:38:14,072 You see, Sir Percy, His Royal Highness approves. 586 00:38:14,091 --> 00:38:16,621 My poor Treadle, His Royal Highness does nothing of the kind. 587 00:38:16,644 --> 00:38:18,304 He says it's "not so bad". 588 00:38:18,379 --> 00:38:20,489 And nothing in the world is "so bad"... 589 00:38:20,497 --> 00:38:22,927 As something which is "not so bad". 590 00:38:22,959 --> 00:38:24,759 - But Sir Percy... - It's a crime, Treadle. 591 00:38:24,788 --> 00:38:25,908 Worse, a blunder. 592 00:38:25,932 --> 00:38:28,582 And quite, quite fatal to my reputation. 593 00:38:28,672 --> 00:38:30,182 Why to your reputation? 594 00:38:30,219 --> 00:38:32,409 Because all the world knows that His Royal Highness 595 00:38:32,438 --> 00:38:33,988 is guided by my taste. 596 00:38:33,995 --> 00:38:36,475 Yes, yes, yes... Percy is an expert on coats. 597 00:38:36,508 --> 00:38:37,668 And britches, sir! 598 00:38:37,694 --> 00:38:39,624 I'm a very wonder with the inexpressibles. 599 00:38:39,646 --> 00:38:40,596 Isn't that so, Treadle? 600 00:38:40,622 --> 00:38:42,442 Well, yes, up to a point. 601 00:38:42,467 --> 00:38:45,237 Zounds, Treadle... Why must you be so cursed jealous? 602 00:38:45,246 --> 00:38:46,986 Look at that puny sleeve... 603 00:38:47,016 --> 00:38:48,976 That miserable dishrag of lace. 604 00:38:48,996 --> 00:38:49,856 Odd's fish! 605 00:38:49,888 --> 00:38:51,378 Looks like the lining hanging down. 606 00:38:51,406 --> 00:38:53,076 It was only intended for a plain cut. 607 00:38:53,102 --> 00:38:55,362 Plain! It's as ugly as a parson's widow. 608 00:38:55,519 --> 00:38:56,789 Open up your sleeves, man. 609 00:38:56,815 --> 00:38:58,265 Let your ruffles take the air. 610 00:38:58,299 --> 00:38:59,999 Let them flow, let them ripple. 611 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,430 So that when His Royal Highness takes snuff... 612 00:39:02,455 --> 00:39:04,545 It'll be a swallows flight. 613 00:39:04,871 --> 00:39:06,021 That's it! 614 00:39:06,090 --> 00:39:07,910 Why, Timmy Percy... 615 00:39:07,939 --> 00:39:10,859 You're brainless, spineless, useless. 616 00:39:10,883 --> 00:39:12,533 But you do know clothes. 617 00:39:12,625 --> 00:39:15,215 Odd's fish! That... That's something, isn't it, sir? 618 00:39:15,545 --> 00:39:16,525 Treadle! Treadle! 619 00:39:16,555 --> 00:39:17,245 Yes, Your Highness! 620 00:39:17,274 --> 00:39:19,914 Don't forget what Sir Percy says about about the sleeves. 621 00:39:20,337 --> 00:39:22,147 - A swallow's flight! - Yes, Your Highness! 622 00:39:22,175 --> 00:39:23,825 Flight of, uh, a swallow. 623 00:39:24,351 --> 00:39:26,311 Come along, come along, gentlemen. 624 00:39:33,268 --> 00:39:34,738 Oh, by the way, Wilmot... 625 00:39:40,763 --> 00:39:42,403 Chauvelin's arrived in London. 626 00:39:42,888 --> 00:39:44,288 Have him watched. 627 00:39:44,576 --> 00:39:46,346 I'm just off to the fight with the Prince. 628 00:39:46,772 --> 00:39:48,622 - Report to me there. - Very good. 629 00:40:11,810 --> 00:40:13,300 Mendoza's groggy! 630 00:40:13,328 --> 00:40:14,748 He... He's done! 631 00:40:14,780 --> 00:40:16,420 Don't you believe it, sir. He's foxing! 632 00:40:16,442 --> 00:40:18,052 You wait until the 30th round. 633 00:40:18,071 --> 00:40:20,341 I'll wager 100 guineas he won't last two more rounds. 634 00:40:20,355 --> 00:40:21,865 - Done! - Come on, Mendoza! 635 00:40:21,892 --> 00:40:23,362 Come on Jackson! 636 00:40:39,006 --> 00:40:41,195 - You'd better hedge, Percy! - Hedge be damned, I'll double. 637 00:40:41,219 --> 00:40:43,109 - Done! - Percy must be mad! 638 00:40:43,133 --> 00:40:44,443 Mendoza's finished! 639 00:40:50,194 --> 00:40:51,544 Get up, Mendoza! 640 00:40:51,567 --> 00:40:52,707 Where is he? 641 00:40:53,401 --> 00:40:56,001 - Where is he? - He's at you house. 642 00:40:58,219 --> 00:40:59,389 No, I will not! 643 00:40:59,847 --> 00:41:01,088 You tricked me once into giving you information 644 00:41:01,112 --> 00:41:02,672 about the Marquis de St. Cyr. 645 00:41:03,091 --> 00:41:04,371 I shall never forgive myself. 646 00:41:04,596 --> 00:41:06,306 I'm sick of this sentimental twaddle 647 00:41:06,335 --> 00:41:08,355 about the poor persecuted aristocrats. 648 00:41:08,775 --> 00:41:10,125 Have you forgotten what they did 649 00:41:10,155 --> 00:41:12,235 to the defenseless peasantry for centuries? 650 00:41:13,528 --> 00:41:16,108 What this very St. Cyr did to you? 651 00:41:18,372 --> 00:41:19,572 No, I have not. 652 00:41:20,299 --> 00:41:21,679 But I'm no spy. 653 00:41:23,626 --> 00:41:25,816 - That is your last word? - Absolutely! 654 00:41:27,020 --> 00:41:28,250 I wonder... 655 00:41:28,959 --> 00:41:31,429 Oh, by the way, how's your brother, Armand? 656 00:41:33,123 --> 00:41:35,043 Very well, I hope. 657 00:41:35,318 --> 00:41:36,758 I hope so too. 658 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,770 But yesterday he was arrested... 659 00:41:38,868 --> 00:41:39,938 Arrested? 660 00:41:40,113 --> 00:41:41,373 At Boulogne. 661 00:41:42,149 --> 00:41:43,279 What for? 662 00:41:43,762 --> 00:41:45,362 As a traitor to his country. 663 00:41:45,587 --> 00:41:46,717 Traitor? 664 00:41:51,614 --> 00:41:52,954 You're lying, Chauvelin. 665 00:41:54,062 --> 00:41:55,592 You're trying to trick me again. 666 00:41:55,626 --> 00:41:57,876 I've the proof of his guilt in my pocket. 667 00:41:59,467 --> 00:42:03,147 This scrap of paper will certainly send your brother to the guillotine. 668 00:42:03,527 --> 00:42:05,977 Unless, of course, you care to redeem it. 669 00:42:07,617 --> 00:42:10,547 Bring me the name of the Pimpernel and it is yours. 670 00:42:13,026 --> 00:42:14,646 But even if I wanted to... 671 00:42:15,579 --> 00:42:17,449 - I don't know it! - Find it! 672 00:42:17,487 --> 00:42:20,037 How can I if you can't with an army of spies? 673 00:42:20,062 --> 00:42:22,552 Because you go everywhere and know everyone in his circle. 674 00:42:22,776 --> 00:42:24,206 That much I do know. 675 00:42:24,238 --> 00:42:25,688 And this also... 676 00:42:26,046 --> 00:42:27,336 That he will be among the guests 677 00:42:27,368 --> 00:42:29,128 tomorrow night at the Grenville ball. 678 00:42:29,155 --> 00:42:30,425 So will half the world! 679 00:42:30,455 --> 00:42:31,995 This thing is impossible! 680 00:42:34,058 --> 00:42:36,738 You're a clever woman whose brother's life is at stake... 681 00:42:36,764 --> 00:42:38,254 Nothing is impossible. 682 00:42:39,180 --> 00:42:40,190 Well? 683 00:42:42,713 --> 00:42:43,713 No, Chauvelin... 684 00:42:44,113 --> 00:42:45,123 I won't! 685 00:42:46,289 --> 00:42:47,679 Very well, madam. 686 00:42:52,955 --> 00:42:54,215 Chauvelin! 687 00:43:02,839 --> 00:43:03,989 Madam? 688 00:43:10,025 --> 00:43:11,905 Do you swear to give me that paper? 689 00:43:14,007 --> 00:43:16,737 The moment I catch the Scarlet Pimpernel. 690 00:43:17,464 --> 00:43:19,444 Zounds! That name again? 691 00:43:20,110 --> 00:43:21,960 I've heard nothing else all day. 692 00:43:22,032 --> 00:43:24,062 At the club. The fight, and now here. 693 00:43:24,334 --> 00:43:26,544 I protest, the fellow is a public nuisance. 694 00:43:29,839 --> 00:43:31,309 I beg your pardon, my dear. 695 00:43:31,340 --> 00:43:32,690 Do I intrude? 696 00:43:33,013 --> 00:43:34,003 No, no. 697 00:43:34,023 --> 00:43:35,973 This is an old, uh, acquaintance. 698 00:43:35,992 --> 00:43:37,932 Monsieur Chauvelin, the French Ambassador. 699 00:43:37,954 --> 00:43:39,334 My husband. 700 00:43:39,357 --> 00:43:41,567 Charmed, delighted, enchanted. 701 00:43:43,157 --> 00:43:44,917 Devilish clever race, the French. 702 00:43:44,942 --> 00:43:48,302 How they speak that unspeakable language of theirs defeats me. 703 00:43:48,370 --> 00:43:49,480 You flatter us, Sir Percy. 704 00:43:49,510 --> 00:43:51,920 No, no, you've got the cleverest heads in the world. 705 00:43:51,942 --> 00:43:53,002 The only trouble is... 706 00:43:53,022 --> 00:43:54,582 You all go to pieces around the neck. 707 00:43:54,602 --> 00:43:55,932 Around the neck? 708 00:43:55,954 --> 00:43:57,634 Yes, now look at that thing. 709 00:43:57,672 --> 00:43:59,342 Sink me, what a mess! 710 00:43:59,657 --> 00:44:02,117 Now, if you'd really like to know how to tie a cravat... 711 00:44:02,149 --> 00:44:02,929 I'll tell you. 712 00:44:02,959 --> 00:44:05,204 But it isn't easy, mind, it would take all my brains. 713 00:44:05,205 --> 00:44:05,925 I'm sure it would. 714 00:44:05,959 --> 00:44:07,419 Yes, now look here. 715 00:44:07,449 --> 00:44:10,679 Well, you see, first of all the thing goes twice around the neck. 716 00:44:10,932 --> 00:44:14,022 And then the front folds back to allow the back to come to the front. 717 00:44:14,195 --> 00:44:16,315 Otherwise the front would be all behind 718 00:44:16,346 --> 00:44:17,736 as well as before. 719 00:44:17,762 --> 00:44:19,612 Percy, what are you talking about? 720 00:44:19,639 --> 00:44:21,239 You don't follow me, my dear? 721 00:44:21,264 --> 00:44:22,744 That's exactly what I say. 722 00:44:22,767 --> 00:44:24,197 It takes brains, doesn't it? 723 00:44:24,227 --> 00:44:26,867 - One can see that. - Yes, of course. 724 00:44:29,533 --> 00:44:30,733 Good day, Lady Blakeney. 725 00:44:30,758 --> 00:44:32,118 Oh, no, no, don't go. 726 00:44:32,141 --> 00:44:34,571 You and my wife must have so much to say to each other. 727 00:44:34,586 --> 00:44:35,766 We have. 728 00:44:35,819 --> 00:44:38,859 But then I promised myself a little tête-á-tête with Lady Blakeney 729 00:44:38,885 --> 00:44:41,075 at Lord Grenville's ball tomorrow night. 730 00:44:41,111 --> 00:44:42,321 Good. 731 00:44:42,554 --> 00:44:43,904 Tomorrow night, then. 732 00:44:44,043 --> 00:44:45,153 But before you go... 733 00:44:45,179 --> 00:44:47,619 You must hear my verse about that cursed Pimpernel fellow. 734 00:44:47,650 --> 00:44:48,620 You'll love it! 735 00:44:48,650 --> 00:44:49,650 Listen. 736 00:44:49,710 --> 00:44:51,080 "They seek him here... 737 00:44:51,108 --> 00:44:52,368 "they seek him there... 738 00:44:52,395 --> 00:44:55,305 "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. 739 00:44:55,332 --> 00:44:56,872 "Is he in heaven? 740 00:44:56,891 --> 00:44:58,641 "Is he in hell? 741 00:44:58,669 --> 00:45:01,409 That damned elusive Pimpernel". 742 00:45:01,434 --> 00:45:02,584 - Delightful! - What? 743 00:45:02,602 --> 00:45:04,732 Especially that, uh... that line: 744 00:45:04,757 --> 00:45:06,437 "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere". 745 00:45:06,468 --> 00:45:07,568 Yes, I like that too. 746 00:45:07,596 --> 00:45:08,796 Because, you see 747 00:45:08,825 --> 00:45:10,235 I hear that they do. 748 00:45:10,266 --> 00:45:11,556 And that gives the line 749 00:45:11,583 --> 00:45:13,223 a sort of something... 750 00:45:13,250 --> 00:45:16,130 That sort of gives it, ah... A something, uh... 751 00:45:16,794 --> 00:45:18,344 If I make myself clear. 752 00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:19,740 Clear as crystal. 753 00:45:20,666 --> 00:45:22,356 Good day, my dear Sir Percy. 754 00:45:22,386 --> 00:45:25,616 Bonjour, "misu", as the French say. 755 00:45:27,711 --> 00:45:29,181 Bonjour! 756 00:45:35,246 --> 00:45:37,866 Magnificent fight this afternoon, my dear. 757 00:45:38,870 --> 00:45:41,490 Gad, that fellow Mendoza's got quick ears. 758 00:45:41,516 --> 00:45:43,596 In the 10th round, when Jackson had him down 759 00:45:43,623 --> 00:45:45,393 I shouted, "Get up Mendoza!" 760 00:45:45,438 --> 00:45:46,848 And damn me, he did. 761 00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,480 And, sink me, he won. 762 00:45:49,991 --> 00:45:51,031 Do you think... 763 00:45:51,055 --> 00:45:53,665 Andrew Ffoulkes might be the Scarlet Pimpernel? 764 00:45:55,146 --> 00:45:56,376 Andrew? 765 00:45:56,415 --> 00:45:57,425 Never! 766 00:45:57,530 --> 00:45:59,500 He couldn't hit a ball at Eaton! 767 00:45:59,809 --> 00:46:00,949 Why? 768 00:46:01,129 --> 00:46:03,499 What's your interest in the Scarlet Pimpernel? 769 00:46:03,610 --> 00:46:04,850 No more than any other woman's. 770 00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:06,300 We would all like to know who he is. 771 00:46:06,384 --> 00:46:08,404 So would your friend Chauvelin, I'll wager. 772 00:46:08,425 --> 00:46:09,555 What makes you say that? 773 00:46:09,588 --> 00:46:11,228 Isn't that what he is here for? 774 00:46:11,515 --> 00:46:12,985 Did he tell you? 775 00:46:13,428 --> 00:46:15,148 - Why should he? - Why not? 776 00:46:15,220 --> 00:46:16,790 Mind you, the man is clever... 777 00:46:16,819 --> 00:46:19,159 But a fellow who can't even tie his own cravat... 778 00:46:19,186 --> 00:46:22,376 Isn't likely to put a noose 'round the Pimpernel's neck is he? 779 00:46:23,638 --> 00:46:24,948 Really, Percy. 780 00:46:24,974 --> 00:46:27,544 Can you never rise above trivialities? 781 00:46:27,569 --> 00:46:31,159 Can't rise above anything with more than three syllables, my dear, I never could. 782 00:46:31,165 --> 00:46:32,345 Nonsense! 783 00:46:32,373 --> 00:46:33,943 You were a man once! 784 00:46:34,899 --> 00:46:36,719 A man a woman could look up to. 785 00:46:37,505 --> 00:46:39,435 Could turn to in trouble. 786 00:46:40,111 --> 00:46:41,541 And now... 787 00:46:42,194 --> 00:46:44,334 You wouldn't know where to begin. 788 00:46:54,829 --> 00:46:57,519 Couldn't you begin by telling me what the trouble is? 789 00:46:58,301 --> 00:46:59,781 What is the use? 790 00:46:59,803 --> 00:47:02,143 We don't even speak the same language. 791 00:47:13,207 --> 00:47:15,927 Mr. Richard Brindslay Sheridan. 792 00:47:17,837 --> 00:47:20,047 The Countess de Tournay. 793 00:47:20,380 --> 00:47:22,440 Mademoiselle de Tournay. 794 00:47:24,685 --> 00:47:26,605 The Vicomte de Tournay. 795 00:47:27,985 --> 00:47:30,615 Lord and Lady Elsworthy. 796 00:47:32,579 --> 00:47:35,099 The Earl and Countess of Garrow. 797 00:47:36,548 --> 00:47:38,208 Well, here's our French friend! 798 00:47:38,233 --> 00:47:40,807 Bonsoir, "misu", as you say. 799 00:47:40,808 --> 00:47:42,208 Good evening, Sir Percy. 800 00:47:43,940 --> 00:47:44,720 Milady. 801 00:47:44,744 --> 00:47:46,414 My dear, look at that cravat. 802 00:47:46,638 --> 00:47:48,638 You're a monstrous quick learner, sir. 803 00:47:48,798 --> 00:47:50,248 Permit me. 804 00:47:52,016 --> 00:47:52,966 There... 805 00:47:52,998 --> 00:47:54,518 Perfect. Perfect! 806 00:47:54,569 --> 00:47:57,319 Another week, and we won't know you from an Englishman. 807 00:47:57,342 --> 00:47:59,632 From an Englishman! That is praise indeed! 808 00:48:01,133 --> 00:48:02,103 Oh, Sir Percy! 809 00:48:02,127 --> 00:48:04,387 What is this poem everybody is talking about? 810 00:48:04,412 --> 00:48:05,472 - Poem? - Yes! 811 00:48:05,494 --> 00:48:07,174 All about the Scarlet Pimpernel. 812 00:48:07,673 --> 00:48:08,563 Do tell us! 813 00:48:08,583 --> 00:48:10,133 Oh, gads, there's no escape. 814 00:48:10,152 --> 00:48:11,332 Forgive me my dear. 815 00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,520 Take our friend round and tell him who everybody is... 816 00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:15,880 If anybody is anybody. 817 00:48:18,848 --> 00:48:21,178 - That's exactly like you, Percy! - That's like you. 818 00:48:21,201 --> 00:48:23,071 I only want to know who one person is 819 00:48:23,090 --> 00:48:24,730 and you know the alternative.. 820 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:26,810 The Pimpernel is under this roof at this moment 821 00:48:26,835 --> 00:48:28,465 among your friends. 822 00:48:29,059 --> 00:48:30,769 Your move, milady. 823 00:48:31,124 --> 00:48:32,564 And good luck. 824 00:48:37,916 --> 00:48:39,176 Marguerite! 825 00:48:41,148 --> 00:48:42,358 Suzanne! 826 00:48:42,627 --> 00:48:43,877 Suzanne. 827 00:48:53,214 --> 00:48:55,434 The thing rhymes, you see, in four places. 828 00:48:55,569 --> 00:48:57,979 And if you can get a rhyme to rhyme... 829 00:48:57,995 --> 00:49:00,685 That, uh, makes it a poem, if you follow me. 830 00:49:00,818 --> 00:49:02,748 Yes, of course, but what is it? 831 00:49:03,039 --> 00:49:04,529 "The Scarlet Pimpernel" 832 00:49:04,534 --> 00:49:06,504 by Sir Percy Blakeney, Baronet. 833 00:49:07,709 --> 00:49:09,479 Really, that's only the name! 834 00:49:09,535 --> 00:49:11,115 Well, go on! 835 00:49:11,378 --> 00:49:12,848 "They seek him here, 836 00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:14,310 "They seek him there. 837 00:49:14,337 --> 00:49:16,827 "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. 838 00:49:16,854 --> 00:49:18,564 "Is he in heaven?" 839 00:49:18,586 --> 00:49:19,876 "Is he in..." 840 00:49:21,988 --> 00:49:23,798 "That damned elusive..." 841 00:49:23,830 --> 00:49:25,320 Pimpernel. 842 00:49:25,626 --> 00:49:27,156 That's marvelous! It rhymes! 843 00:49:27,185 --> 00:49:28,595 Oh yes! It's a poem! 844 00:49:30,488 --> 00:49:32,878 "They seek him here, "They seek him there. 845 00:49:32,906 --> 00:49:35,996 "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. 846 00:49:36,026 --> 00:49:38,726 "Is he in heaven? " Is he in... 847 00:49:39,634 --> 00:49:42,794 "That damned elusive Pimpernel!" 848 00:49:42,819 --> 00:49:44,909 - Oh, extraordinary. - Marvelous! 849 00:49:51,976 --> 00:49:53,036 You liked that? 850 00:49:53,067 --> 00:49:54,857 Well, I could tell another one. 851 00:49:54,886 --> 00:49:56,286 Zounds! 852 00:49:56,709 --> 00:49:58,499 That's a monstrous good color! 853 00:50:01,634 --> 00:50:02,684 Hastings! 854 00:50:02,687 --> 00:50:03,917 Who made that coat? 855 00:50:03,949 --> 00:50:04,929 Beagle & Beagle. 856 00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:05,750 Odd's blood! 857 00:50:05,776 --> 00:50:07,966 Sink me if they're not better than our master Treadle. 858 00:50:07,991 --> 00:50:10,011 - Ffoulkes and Dewhurst are free. - Escaped? 859 00:50:10,031 --> 00:50:12,091 No, released. They are coming here immediately. 860 00:50:12,119 --> 00:50:14,029 Of course, that's why they were released. 861 00:50:14,184 --> 00:50:15,994 To lead a trail to the rest of us. 862 00:50:16,253 --> 00:50:18,293 I shall be in the library at midnight. 863 00:50:19,696 --> 00:50:21,936 His Royal Highness... 864 00:50:21,963 --> 00:50:24,173 The Prince of Wales. 865 00:50:33,516 --> 00:50:35,536 Ladies, please. 866 00:50:36,518 --> 00:50:39,278 Ladies, gentlemen, please. 867 00:50:39,891 --> 00:50:41,601 Ah, Grenville! 868 00:50:45,157 --> 00:50:46,837 Good evening, ladies! 869 00:50:46,866 --> 00:50:48,506 Good evening, gentlemen! 870 00:50:48,762 --> 00:50:50,192 Please, please! 871 00:50:52,698 --> 00:50:54,728 Any news from France, Grenville? 872 00:50:54,756 --> 00:50:56,576 - The worst, sir. - The King? 873 00:50:56,609 --> 00:50:58,089 Doomed. 874 00:50:58,850 --> 00:51:00,230 Can't we do anything? 875 00:51:00,416 --> 00:51:02,306 We recalled our ambassador a month ago. 876 00:51:02,350 --> 00:51:05,040 Chauvelin had the impudence to accept my invitation. 877 00:51:06,550 --> 00:51:08,090 Will Your Highness permit? 878 00:51:08,112 --> 00:51:09,202 Monsieur Chauvelin 879 00:51:09,229 --> 00:51:11,729 the unofficial ambassador of the French government. 880 00:51:13,852 --> 00:51:17,072 Monsieur, we will try to forget the government who sent you. 881 00:51:17,449 --> 00:51:19,879 And look upon you as merely our guest. 882 00:51:20,077 --> 00:51:21,967 A private gentleman from France. 883 00:51:22,229 --> 00:51:24,109 As such are you welcome, monsieur. 884 00:51:24,169 --> 00:51:25,199 Well, ladies... 885 00:51:25,224 --> 00:51:27,964 Did you bet on my horse at Newmarket this afternoon? 886 00:51:37,936 --> 00:51:39,556 I particularly love the whole... 887 00:51:39,589 --> 00:51:40,989 But I didn't want to... 888 00:51:42,971 --> 00:51:45,461 Lady Blakeney with a sad face? 889 00:51:45,486 --> 00:51:48,266 Ha-ha, but sadness is for mere mortals, milady. 890 00:51:48,291 --> 00:51:50,201 Never, never for goddesses. 891 00:51:50,434 --> 00:51:52,614 Alas, even a goddess must have moments 892 00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:54,150 when she's a plain woman. 893 00:51:54,180 --> 00:51:55,280 Zounds, madam! 894 00:51:55,301 --> 00:51:58,241 Lady Blakeney could never become a plain woman at any moment. 895 00:51:58,264 --> 00:52:00,004 Ha-ha, that's better! 896 00:52:00,066 --> 00:52:01,666 Now, come and help me through my... 897 00:52:01,700 --> 00:52:03,190 my princely paces. 898 00:52:03,844 --> 00:52:06,114 I crave your permission to present Your Royal Highness 899 00:52:06,249 --> 00:52:08,379 the Countess de Tournay, her daughter. 900 00:52:08,406 --> 00:52:09,896 This is a pleasure, madam. 901 00:52:10,539 --> 00:52:12,559 Charming, charming! 902 00:52:12,581 --> 00:52:15,581 You and Lady Blakeney must become great friends, madam. 903 00:52:15,621 --> 00:52:17,871 Her friends are my friends. 904 00:52:18,282 --> 00:52:20,392 And her enemies, the enemies... 905 00:52:20,469 --> 00:52:21,559 of England. 906 00:52:21,873 --> 00:52:24,863 We poor exiles, madam show our gratitude to England 907 00:52:24,890 --> 00:52:27,420 by our devotion to the wishes of Monseigneur. 908 00:52:28,507 --> 00:52:29,337 Suzanne. 909 00:52:29,363 --> 00:52:31,013 - Suzanne! - Marguerite! 910 00:52:36,490 --> 00:52:38,740 They were schoolfellows in the convent in Paris. 911 00:52:38,770 --> 00:52:40,790 Ah-ha, charming, madam. 912 00:52:40,813 --> 00:52:42,603 Your Royal Highness, 913 00:52:42,624 --> 00:52:45,574 I accepted the Lord Grenville's gracious invitation 914 00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:49,540 solely to implore Your Highness to do something to save my husband. 915 00:52:50,368 --> 00:52:51,678 Madam. 916 00:52:52,235 --> 00:52:54,555 The government does everything in it's power 917 00:52:54,587 --> 00:52:58,057 to save those who are threatened by death in the prisons of the French Republic. 918 00:52:58,493 --> 00:53:00,503 But if a country goes mad 919 00:53:00,531 --> 00:53:03,041 it has the right to commit every horror 920 00:53:03,070 --> 00:53:04,740 within it's own walls. 921 00:53:09,031 --> 00:53:12,141 Hastings slipped a note into sir Andrew Ffoulkes' cuff. 922 00:53:13,376 --> 00:53:14,806 Thank you, sir. 923 00:53:23,441 --> 00:53:25,011 Ah, Lady Blakeney. 924 00:53:25,367 --> 00:53:27,787 Won't you take pity on a lonely compatriot? 925 00:53:31,142 --> 00:53:33,272 Are you asking me to dance with you? 926 00:53:35,144 --> 00:53:36,224 Not with me. 927 00:53:36,257 --> 00:53:37,807 With Sir Andrew Ffoulkes. 928 00:53:37,997 --> 00:53:38,837 Why? 929 00:53:38,870 --> 00:53:40,990 He has a note in his cuff. Get it! 930 00:53:42,939 --> 00:53:44,839 - But listen, Chauvelin... - Get it! 931 00:54:06,136 --> 00:54:08,176 Your Royal Highness... 932 00:54:08,233 --> 00:54:09,973 Your Graces... 933 00:54:10,085 --> 00:54:10,975 My lords... 934 00:54:11,016 --> 00:54:13,196 Ladies and gentlemen... 935 00:54:13,300 --> 00:54:16,930 Pray take your places for the minuet. 936 00:54:50,898 --> 00:54:52,878 Oh, please, it's nothing. 937 00:54:52,909 --> 00:54:54,029 Just the heat. 938 00:54:55,315 --> 00:54:56,605 Sir Andrew. 939 00:54:56,921 --> 00:54:58,751 Would you be kind enough to see me upstairs? 940 00:54:58,774 --> 00:54:59,774 Of course. 941 00:55:13,018 --> 00:55:15,408 This way, Lady Blakeney. You'll be all right in a moment. 942 00:55:26,392 --> 00:55:27,622 Lady Blakeney. 943 00:55:27,702 --> 00:55:29,192 Shall I send for a physician? 944 00:55:29,474 --> 00:55:30,654 No, no! 945 00:55:32,970 --> 00:55:34,660 I'm so sorry... 946 00:55:35,607 --> 00:55:37,367 I'll be all right in a minute. 947 00:55:41,567 --> 00:55:43,067 Would you rather be left alone? 948 00:55:43,097 --> 00:55:43,977 No. 949 00:55:44,009 --> 00:55:45,269 Please don't leave me! 950 00:55:47,839 --> 00:55:49,149 Just for a second. 951 00:55:54,283 --> 00:55:55,763 I'll be all right. 952 00:56:51,881 --> 00:56:53,421 How clever of you. 953 00:56:53,605 --> 00:56:55,925 Almost as good as a burnt feather for faintness. 954 00:56:57,014 --> 00:56:58,284 There... 955 00:56:58,705 --> 00:57:00,395 I feel better already. 956 00:57:01,121 --> 00:57:03,491 Would you be kind enough to bring me my fan? 957 00:57:24,733 --> 00:57:25,963 It was a love letter. 958 00:57:26,019 --> 00:57:27,739 And you sacrificed it for me. 959 00:57:27,808 --> 00:57:29,148 What a shame. 960 00:57:29,636 --> 00:57:32,176 But I'll ask her to write you another, shall I? 961 00:57:33,486 --> 00:57:35,986 Suzanne! Are you feeling better, darling? 962 00:57:37,941 --> 00:57:39,641 I spoiled Sir Andrew's dance. 963 00:57:39,673 --> 00:57:42,043 Would you make it up to him by finishing it for me? 964 00:57:59,098 --> 00:58:00,098 Well? 965 00:58:00,852 --> 00:58:02,082 Did you get it? 966 00:58:02,568 --> 00:58:03,708 He burned it. 967 00:58:04,570 --> 00:58:06,160 But I got a glimpse of what was left. 968 00:58:07,008 --> 00:58:08,138 It began... 969 00:58:08,571 --> 00:58:09,831 Well, go on. 970 00:58:11,263 --> 00:58:13,103 "Start tomorrow myself..." 971 00:58:13,979 --> 00:58:15,019 And ended... 972 00:58:15,044 --> 00:58:17,534 "Will be in library at midnight". 973 01:02:01,495 --> 01:02:03,315 Thank you, Mary. You can go to bed. 974 01:02:54,287 --> 01:02:56,537 See that Sir Andrew Ffoulkes gets this. 975 01:02:58,484 --> 01:02:59,714 My dear! 976 01:03:00,185 --> 01:03:01,285 Percy! 977 01:03:02,925 --> 01:03:04,335 All right, Brinker. 978 01:03:07,996 --> 01:03:09,256 Well, my dear? 979 01:03:11,206 --> 01:03:12,476 It's about Armand. 980 01:03:13,859 --> 01:03:15,489 He's in the most terrible danger. 981 01:03:15,608 --> 01:03:17,098 They've arrested him at Boulogne! 982 01:03:18,063 --> 01:03:19,443 How do you know? 983 01:03:22,140 --> 01:03:23,340 Chauvelin told me. 984 01:03:23,942 --> 01:03:25,182 When? 985 01:03:26,836 --> 01:03:28,086 Yesterday. 986 01:03:29,998 --> 01:03:32,248 Well, why didn't you tell me when I asked you? 987 01:03:32,540 --> 01:03:34,070 I don't know... I... 988 01:03:36,519 --> 01:03:37,959 He threatened me. 989 01:03:38,597 --> 01:03:40,297 Then why are you telling me now? 990 01:03:40,321 --> 01:03:42,651 Because I thought you might do something for Armand! 991 01:03:42,951 --> 01:03:44,861 You have influence at court. 992 01:03:45,725 --> 01:03:48,145 Didn't you ask your friend Chauvelin for help? 993 01:03:49,959 --> 01:03:51,539 He promised me that... 994 01:03:53,208 --> 01:03:54,698 I don't trust him. 995 01:03:55,608 --> 01:03:57,808 He promised you the life of your brother. 996 01:03:59,208 --> 01:04:01,198 What did you give him in exchange? 997 01:04:05,812 --> 01:04:07,512 What has happened to you, Percy? 998 01:04:09,897 --> 01:04:11,677 Do you... hate me? 999 01:04:14,029 --> 01:04:16,219 Why did you denounce the Marquis de St. Cyr? 1000 01:04:17,008 --> 01:04:18,208 So, that's it! 1001 01:04:18,754 --> 01:04:21,234 Why did you never ask me what the Marquis de St. Cyr did to me! 1002 01:04:21,254 --> 01:04:22,764 You didn't even know him. 1003 01:04:24,162 --> 01:04:25,162 No. 1004 01:04:25,306 --> 01:04:26,776 I didn't even know him. 1005 01:04:27,602 --> 01:04:28,542 Well, then. 1006 01:04:28,593 --> 01:04:29,913 But I knew his son. 1007 01:04:31,692 --> 01:04:34,182 I was only 17 when he asked me to marry him. 1008 01:04:34,876 --> 01:04:36,756 His father heard about it and had me arrested... 1009 01:04:37,506 --> 01:04:39,236 And sent to St. Lazare. 1010 01:04:40,599 --> 01:04:42,609 Do you know what St. Lazare is? 1011 01:04:44,541 --> 01:04:46,801 Do you know the sort of women that are sent there? 1012 01:04:48,411 --> 01:04:49,491 I would have killed myself. 1013 01:04:49,872 --> 01:04:50,892 Only... 1014 01:04:51,073 --> 01:04:52,273 Only what? 1015 01:04:52,334 --> 01:04:53,814 The Revolution came. 1016 01:04:54,146 --> 01:04:56,256 The ever-glorious 14th of July. 1017 01:04:57,141 --> 01:04:58,451 And I was free. 1018 01:05:01,392 --> 01:05:03,102 Why this tardy explanation? 1019 01:05:03,904 --> 01:05:07,124 I asked you once if you sent the St. Cyrs to the guillotine. You said yes. 1020 01:05:07,876 --> 01:05:09,826 You believed it so easily, didn't you? 1021 01:05:11,441 --> 01:05:12,531 And yet... 1022 01:05:13,227 --> 01:05:14,697 I still ask myself. 1023 01:05:15,668 --> 01:05:17,658 "Am I really guilty of their deaths?" 1024 01:05:18,203 --> 01:05:19,893 If not you, who is? 1025 01:05:20,409 --> 01:05:21,749 He plotted with Austria. 1026 01:05:21,776 --> 01:05:23,056 I told a friend. 1027 01:05:23,563 --> 01:05:25,303 A man whom I thought a friend. 1028 01:05:25,716 --> 01:05:27,036 He denounced him. 1029 01:05:27,926 --> 01:05:29,246 The terror did the rest. 1030 01:05:30,127 --> 01:05:31,517 Who was that friend? 1031 01:05:35,482 --> 01:05:37,012 Was it Chauvelin? 1032 01:05:41,731 --> 01:05:43,721 He promised you your brother's life. 1033 01:05:44,931 --> 01:05:46,801 What price did you pay for it? 1034 01:05:48,442 --> 01:05:50,282 What price did you pay for it? 1035 01:05:52,065 --> 01:05:53,605 I paid a horrible price. 1036 01:05:55,005 --> 01:05:56,175 Well? 1037 01:05:56,762 --> 01:05:58,892 I betrayed the Scarlet Pimpernel. 1038 01:06:01,638 --> 01:06:02,908 How? 1039 01:06:03,522 --> 01:06:05,572 Ffoulkes had a scrap of paper in his cuff. 1040 01:06:05,691 --> 01:06:09,091 I read it and told Chauvelin the Pimpernel would be in the library at midnight. 1041 01:06:09,632 --> 01:06:12,042 And was he in the library at midnight? 1042 01:06:12,124 --> 01:06:13,744 Chauvelin says he wasn't. 1043 01:06:14,167 --> 01:06:15,557 But I think he is lying. 1044 01:06:17,180 --> 01:06:18,440 And through my betrayal 1045 01:06:18,464 --> 01:06:20,844 a noble and generous man might lose his life. 1046 01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:22,810 What am I to do Percy? 1047 01:06:22,838 --> 01:06:24,388 How can I warn him? 1048 01:06:24,418 --> 01:06:25,808 Warn him? 1049 01:06:25,897 --> 01:06:27,207 Against what? 1050 01:06:27,232 --> 01:06:30,032 Against the danger that threatens him if he goes back to France! 1051 01:06:30,131 --> 01:06:31,311 My dear... 1052 01:06:31,332 --> 01:06:33,241 If he is the kind of lunatic I take him to be 1053 01:06:33,242 --> 01:06:34,710 your warning won't stop him. 1054 01:06:34,736 --> 01:06:36,426 But he might be going to his death! 1055 01:06:36,451 --> 01:06:38,621 Well, that's all the fellow lives for. 1056 01:06:39,467 --> 01:06:41,737 Besides, he doesn't know you're in love with him. 1057 01:06:41,763 --> 01:06:43,523 I'm not in love with him. 1058 01:06:43,544 --> 01:06:45,244 I admire his heroism, but... 1059 01:06:45,278 --> 01:06:46,598 I don't love him. 1060 01:06:46,660 --> 01:06:48,660 Oh, but you do, only you don't know it. 1061 01:06:49,233 --> 01:06:51,663 I didn't know it myself until a moment ago. 1062 01:06:51,719 --> 01:06:53,969 Percy, please don't joke about it! 1063 01:06:54,388 --> 01:06:55,628 It's no joke. 1064 01:06:56,485 --> 01:06:57,795 Believe me. 1065 01:06:59,355 --> 01:07:02,115 Dangerous game, falling in love with a phantom, my dear. 1066 01:07:03,121 --> 01:07:05,611 For all you know, he may be a married man. 1067 01:07:06,107 --> 01:07:08,037 Who's deeply in love with his wife. 1068 01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:10,230 Never. 1069 01:07:10,865 --> 01:07:12,095 Why not? 1070 01:07:12,936 --> 01:07:14,786 Would any man who was in love with his wife 1071 01:07:14,817 --> 01:07:16,657 leave her continually to face death? 1072 01:07:18,272 --> 01:07:19,652 Would you? 1073 01:07:21,482 --> 01:07:22,592 Me? 1074 01:07:24,899 --> 01:07:27,409 Zounds! I'm much more romantic than you think. 1075 01:07:28,086 --> 01:07:30,246 In a case like that I wouldn't leave you. 1076 01:07:30,399 --> 01:07:32,319 Not even to go to my tailor. 1077 01:07:33,509 --> 01:07:35,079 The horses are ready, sir. 1078 01:07:35,266 --> 01:07:36,436 Thank you, Brinker. 1079 01:07:36,482 --> 01:07:37,712 Are you going away? 1080 01:07:37,743 --> 01:07:39,493 Oh, yes, didn't I tell you? 1081 01:07:39,509 --> 01:07:41,629 Important business in town. 1082 01:07:42,073 --> 01:07:43,653 Goodbye, my dear. 1083 01:07:44,328 --> 01:07:45,778 Your tailor, I suppose. 1084 01:07:45,813 --> 01:07:48,443 Not only my tailor, but also my bootmaker. 1085 01:07:48,814 --> 01:07:50,414 And incidentally... 1086 01:07:50,504 --> 01:07:53,054 I want to see what my influence is worth at court... 1087 01:07:53,077 --> 01:07:54,847 That little matter of your brother. 1088 01:07:56,175 --> 01:07:57,555 Perhaps I can help. 1089 01:07:59,153 --> 01:08:00,763 Oh, Percy, if you could... 1090 01:08:00,782 --> 01:08:02,582 I'd love you all my life. 1091 01:08:03,774 --> 01:08:05,074 Gad! 1092 01:08:06,501 --> 01:08:08,201 I must remember that, my dear. 1093 01:08:09,887 --> 01:08:11,177 Goodbye. 1094 01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:39,130 What is it Brinker? 1095 01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:41,490 It's 6 o'clock, milady. 1096 01:08:42,635 --> 01:08:44,535 I suppose you want me to leave this room. 1097 01:08:45,853 --> 01:08:48,253 I've never been here quite alone, have I? 1098 01:08:48,275 --> 01:08:49,775 No, milady. 1099 01:08:49,896 --> 01:08:52,016 All right, Brinker, thank you. 1100 01:09:36,084 --> 01:09:37,504 Percy! 1101 01:09:45,132 --> 01:09:46,522 Percy! 1102 01:09:51,751 --> 01:09:53,581 - Brinker! Brinker! - Milady. 1103 01:09:53,731 --> 01:09:56,241 A letter, to be delivered into your Lady's good hands. 1104 01:09:56,316 --> 01:09:57,926 - From Sir Percy? - No, madam. 1105 01:09:57,959 --> 01:10:00,289 From his excellency, the French Ambassador. 1106 01:10:28,528 --> 01:10:29,798 Where's Monsieur Chauvelin? 1107 01:10:29,822 --> 01:10:32,062 He left this morning for France, madam. 1108 01:10:33,094 --> 01:10:34,624 All right, thank you. 1109 01:10:45,693 --> 01:10:46,843 Brinker! 1110 01:10:47,807 --> 01:10:48,857 The carriage. 1111 01:10:49,078 --> 01:10:50,478 Very good, milady. 1112 01:11:21,248 --> 01:11:22,698 Is Sir Andrew Ffoulkes in? 1113 01:11:22,727 --> 01:11:23,837 Yes, milady. 1114 01:11:29,252 --> 01:11:31,052 I'll call Sir Andrew, milady. 1115 01:11:39,403 --> 01:11:40,693 Lady Blakeney, what's happened? 1116 01:11:40,711 --> 01:11:42,671 Sir Andrew, there's no time to waste in talking. 1117 01:11:42,691 --> 01:11:43,761 Just listen to me. 1118 01:11:43,775 --> 01:11:45,885 Your leader and friend, the Scarlet Pimpernel. 1119 01:11:45,919 --> 01:11:47,530 - My husband.. - How do you know that, milady? 1120 01:11:47,554 --> 01:11:48,950 Do not ask any questions now. 1121 01:11:48,951 --> 01:11:50,346 He is in deadly peril. 1122 01:11:50,372 --> 01:11:52,666 Chauvelin knows that Percy Blakeney and the Scarlet Pimpernel 1123 01:11:52,690 --> 01:11:53,870 are one and the same. 1124 01:11:53,892 --> 01:11:55,692 How did Chauvelin come to know? 1125 01:11:58,291 --> 01:11:59,651 Through me. 1126 01:12:01,027 --> 01:12:02,737 Do you mean to say that you betrayed him? 1127 01:12:02,766 --> 01:12:04,326 Yes, yes, I betrayed him, never mind how 1128 01:12:04,355 --> 01:12:05,515 just tell me this... 1129 01:12:05,546 --> 01:12:07,126 Has Percy left for Boulogne? 1130 01:12:07,155 --> 01:12:08,155 Yes. 1131 01:12:08,603 --> 01:12:10,663 - To save my brother? - And de Tournay. 1132 01:12:10,694 --> 01:12:12,884 What is their meeting place in Boulogne? 1133 01:12:13,793 --> 01:12:14,993 Why? 1134 01:12:15,254 --> 01:12:17,724 - Do you want to... - Oh, look at me, man! 1135 01:12:17,744 --> 01:12:20,394 Do I look like a woman who wants to send her husband to his death? 1136 01:12:20,413 --> 01:12:22,813 I want to find Percy, to warn him, to save him 1137 01:12:22,833 --> 01:12:23,943 or to die with him. 1138 01:12:27,492 --> 01:12:28,802 I'll go with you. 1139 01:12:32,673 --> 01:12:34,203 Can you bring your friends? 1140 01:12:35,071 --> 01:12:36,381 Ten of them. 1141 01:12:36,676 --> 01:12:38,366 The rest are in France. 1142 01:12:38,972 --> 01:12:41,052 Percy has forbidden us to go over. 1143 01:12:41,507 --> 01:12:43,757 It will be the first time we've ever disobeyed him. 1144 01:12:47,587 --> 01:12:50,457 I'll save Percy even if I have to kill Chauvelin. 1145 01:12:51,358 --> 01:12:53,038 And if he goes to the guillotine... 1146 01:12:53,617 --> 01:12:54,977 I'll go after him. 1147 01:13:00,561 --> 01:13:02,491 There you are citizens! 1148 01:13:02,517 --> 01:13:05,317 Boulogne has a guillotine of it's own now. 1149 01:13:05,357 --> 01:13:06,657 Same as Paris! 1150 01:13:06,688 --> 01:13:07,918 That's nothing! 1151 01:13:07,945 --> 01:13:10,175 Half the towns in France have got them. 1152 01:13:11,729 --> 01:13:13,439 Let her go, Francois! 1153 01:13:17,192 --> 01:13:18,542 Good, eh? 1154 01:13:20,061 --> 01:13:21,471 So much for the bait. 1155 01:13:22,136 --> 01:13:23,416 Now for the trap. 1156 01:13:23,724 --> 01:13:25,644 We can't afford to make any mistakes this time. 1157 01:13:25,650 --> 01:13:28,530 Remember, it's either the Pimpernel or ourselves for the guillotine. 1158 01:13:28,554 --> 01:13:30,664 - Robespierre knows he is here. - Yes. 1159 01:13:30,810 --> 01:13:33,259 The net must be spread with more than cunning. 1160 01:13:33,260 --> 01:13:34,487 Blakeney's no fool. 1161 01:13:34,511 --> 01:13:36,851 Besides, he's a master of makeup and disguise. 1162 01:13:36,876 --> 01:13:38,686 He may turn up as an old woman 1163 01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:41,750 a peddler with a pack, a peasant with a beard, anything! 1164 01:13:41,791 --> 01:13:44,631 They've got the Scarlet Pimpernel! 1165 01:13:46,419 --> 01:13:47,399 Quiet! 1166 01:13:47,429 --> 01:13:49,249 Quiet everybody! Quiet! 1167 01:13:52,382 --> 01:13:54,122 Listen, my friend. 1168 01:13:54,146 --> 01:13:56,365 The next time you want to put on a false beard. 1169 01:13:56,366 --> 01:13:57,403 Choose a good one 1170 01:13:57,430 --> 01:14:00,400 not a bird's nest that wouldn't deceive a child! 1171 01:14:02,638 --> 01:14:03,828 Clumsy idiot! 1172 01:14:03,867 --> 01:14:05,297 Let go, you! 1173 01:14:05,330 --> 01:14:08,690 I'll teach him to pull the best beard in Boulogne! 1174 01:14:13,228 --> 01:14:15,508 I've never been so insulted in my life! 1175 01:14:15,554 --> 01:14:17,324 You disgusting, gibbering monkeys! 1176 01:14:17,343 --> 01:14:18,953 You'll hear more of this! 1177 01:14:19,139 --> 01:14:22,069 An honest woman I am, one of the few in our street! 1178 01:14:22,404 --> 01:14:24,104 Stripped naked by soldiers 1179 01:14:24,116 --> 01:14:26,306 and the searched to see if I was a man! 1180 01:14:41,165 --> 01:14:42,585 Listen, Captain. 1181 01:14:43,664 --> 01:14:45,744 If I were 20 years younger 1182 01:14:45,770 --> 01:14:47,480 that's were I should be. 1183 01:14:47,505 --> 01:14:49,455 Bravo uncle! That's the spirit! 1184 01:14:50,298 --> 01:14:52,198 Where are you boys serving now? 1185 01:14:52,432 --> 01:14:53,852 Oh, we're on leave. 1186 01:14:54,178 --> 01:14:57,178 Stealing away the hearts of the girls of Boulogne? 1187 01:14:57,459 --> 01:14:59,289 No sir, I'm in love. 1188 01:14:59,493 --> 01:15:00,923 Ah, you rascal. 1189 01:15:01,094 --> 01:15:02,884 It's the wife of another man? 1190 01:15:02,953 --> 01:15:04,953 No, it's my own. 1191 01:15:06,293 --> 01:15:07,773 Splendid! 1192 01:15:07,798 --> 01:15:10,218 Captain, I'll tell you a secret. 1193 01:15:12,162 --> 01:15:15,402 You and I are the only men in France 1194 01:15:15,433 --> 01:15:16,873 who are in love with our wives. 1195 01:15:16,893 --> 01:15:18,653 Hooray! Let's drink to it! 1196 01:15:19,477 --> 01:15:20,877 Well, here's to it! 1197 01:15:22,460 --> 01:15:23,790 Here's to it! 1198 01:15:26,837 --> 01:15:28,807 But it'll be hard for you to leave her 1199 01:15:28,831 --> 01:15:30,221 for this war with England. 1200 01:15:30,243 --> 01:15:31,474 You think that's coming, do you? 1201 01:15:31,498 --> 01:15:32,348 Surely! 1202 01:15:32,380 --> 01:15:36,320 We shall have to teach perfidious Albion a lesson! 1203 01:15:36,344 --> 01:15:38,594 Well. It won't take us long to get across the channel. 1204 01:15:38,650 --> 01:15:39,780 Will it, boys? 1205 01:15:39,846 --> 01:15:40,876 No, no! 1206 01:15:40,905 --> 01:15:44,345 Well, gentlemen, good luck! And... 1207 01:15:44,375 --> 01:15:45,575 Good night. 1208 01:15:45,646 --> 01:15:47,506 - Good night. - Good night. 1209 01:15:51,169 --> 01:15:53,409 De Tournay was brought here from Paris yesterday. 1210 01:15:53,443 --> 01:15:54,593 The same prison as Armand. 1211 01:15:54,610 --> 01:15:55,700 I thought so. 1212 01:15:55,724 --> 01:15:57,524 Chauvelin's using them as bait. 1213 01:16:00,996 --> 01:16:02,566 Search every incoming ship. 1214 01:16:04,215 --> 01:16:05,815 Even the smallest fishing boat. 1215 01:16:05,860 --> 01:16:06,860 And you... 1216 01:16:07,583 --> 01:16:09,233 De Tournay and St. Just have escaped! 1217 01:16:09,258 --> 01:16:10,808 Escaped! How? 1218 01:16:11,012 --> 01:16:12,122 God knows. 1219 01:16:12,147 --> 01:16:13,567 The Pimpernel knows! 1220 01:16:13,699 --> 01:16:15,249 Someone will pay for this! 1221 01:16:15,615 --> 01:16:16,755 Where are the jailers? 1222 01:16:16,781 --> 01:16:17,911 Missing! 1223 01:16:18,813 --> 01:16:19,713 Citizen Chauvelin! 1224 01:16:19,743 --> 01:16:21,303 How dare you burst in? Who are you? 1225 01:16:21,328 --> 01:16:22,188 Jailer from the prison! 1226 01:16:22,212 --> 01:16:23,972 - So you're the one... - No fault of mine! 1227 01:16:24,475 --> 01:16:26,105 The head jailer would have killed me 1228 01:16:26,136 --> 01:16:28,159 if I hadn't taken the money to free those accursed aristocrats! 1229 01:16:28,183 --> 01:16:29,053 What? 1230 01:16:29,073 --> 01:16:30,753 The Pimpernel is taking them to England. 1231 01:16:30,783 --> 01:16:32,583 Promised us all jobs there! 1232 01:16:32,651 --> 01:16:34,981 But I'm a good patriot, Citizen Chauvelin. 1233 01:16:35,213 --> 01:16:36,963 I'm not losing my head... 1234 01:16:37,393 --> 01:16:40,123 because I got some information that will save yours. 1235 01:16:41,293 --> 01:16:42,713 What is it worth? 1236 01:16:42,865 --> 01:16:44,245 What do you know? 1237 01:16:44,495 --> 01:16:47,375 Where you can find the Scarlet Pimpernel. 1238 01:16:47,984 --> 01:16:49,144 Out with it! 1239 01:16:49,297 --> 01:16:50,407 Where? 1240 01:16:51,909 --> 01:16:55,739 He told us to meet him at 10 o'clock at the Lion d'Or. 1241 01:16:56,975 --> 01:16:58,245 Take him away. 1242 01:17:02,778 --> 01:17:05,168 10 o'clock at the Lion d'Or.♪ ♪ 1243 01:17:19,086 --> 01:17:21,256 Let fly foresheet! 1244 01:17:21,287 --> 01:17:22,597 Let fly foresheet! 1245 01:17:23,035 --> 01:17:24,625 There's the Lion d'Or. 1246 01:17:26,497 --> 01:17:28,587 Tell the men to get ready to row me ashore. 1247 01:17:28,615 --> 01:17:30,315 We must wait for the signal. 1248 01:17:30,351 --> 01:17:32,051 Brogard waves the lantern 1249 01:17:32,076 --> 01:17:33,376 across the window for safe 1250 01:17:33,410 --> 01:17:35,060 up and down for danger. 1251 01:17:35,484 --> 01:17:36,484 Look! 1252 01:17:36,725 --> 01:17:38,035 There's the signal. 1253 01:17:41,875 --> 01:17:42,935 Safe! 1254 01:17:44,924 --> 01:17:46,384 You've all the roads watched? 1255 01:17:46,792 --> 01:17:49,062 Every corner... and the beach. 1256 01:17:49,242 --> 01:17:51,182 And a troop of dragoons to surround the place? 1257 01:17:51,371 --> 01:17:52,871 Waiting outside. 1258 01:17:52,965 --> 01:17:54,035 Come on then... 1259 01:17:54,074 --> 01:17:55,434 The Lion d'Or. 1260 01:18:11,665 --> 01:18:12,675 Good evening. 1261 01:18:12,706 --> 01:18:13,926 What do you want here? 1262 01:18:13,957 --> 01:18:16,017 This is no place for one of your sort. 1263 01:18:17,174 --> 01:18:19,794 I'm the sort that pays well, Citizen Brogard. 1264 01:18:20,696 --> 01:18:21,916 For what? 1265 01:18:23,024 --> 01:18:24,714 For a seat by the fire. 1266 01:18:45,327 --> 01:18:47,257 I'll wait here for a friend of mine... 1267 01:18:48,121 --> 01:18:49,171 And yours. 1268 01:18:49,191 --> 01:18:51,401 What should I know of your friends? 1269 01:18:51,421 --> 01:18:53,861 You signaled him just now. You must be expecting him. 1270 01:18:54,081 --> 01:18:55,161 What time? 1271 01:18:57,824 --> 01:18:59,054 What time? 1272 01:19:00,843 --> 01:19:02,163 10 o'clock. 1273 01:19:11,985 --> 01:19:13,315 Where can I hide? 1274 01:19:14,236 --> 01:19:15,936 Quick, to the attic! 1275 01:19:44,248 --> 01:19:45,608 Citizen Brogard? 1276 01:19:45,635 --> 01:19:46,565 Yes? 1277 01:19:46,598 --> 01:19:47,898 Under arrest. 1278 01:19:55,569 --> 01:19:56,619 What for? 1279 01:19:56,650 --> 01:19:57,940 Betraying the Republic... 1280 01:19:58,161 --> 01:19:59,791 Helping the enemies of France... 1281 01:20:00,059 --> 01:20:02,319 Harboring a gang of dangerous criminals... 1282 01:20:02,530 --> 01:20:04,450 Smuggling aristocrats out of the country. 1283 01:20:04,475 --> 01:20:05,685 That's a lie! 1284 01:20:05,713 --> 01:20:07,003 You've got one chance. 1285 01:20:07,023 --> 01:20:10,063 Take it, or I'll hang you now from your own sign. 1286 01:20:10,734 --> 01:20:14,124 The leader of your gang is coming here tonight, isn't he? 1287 01:20:15,116 --> 01:20:16,336 Isn't he? 1288 01:20:17,347 --> 01:20:19,107 - Yes. - What time? 1289 01:20:20,623 --> 01:20:23,483 He ordered his boat to be off the point at 10 o'clock. 1290 01:20:23,506 --> 01:20:25,856 Ah, but he'll call here for his passengers, won't he? 1291 01:20:25,886 --> 01:20:26,846 He might! 1292 01:20:26,878 --> 01:20:27,878 Might? 1293 01:20:28,280 --> 01:20:30,990 You'll look pretty swinging in the wind. 1294 01:20:32,054 --> 01:20:33,404 How does he know it's safe? 1295 01:20:34,181 --> 01:20:35,701 What is the signal? 1296 01:20:36,865 --> 01:20:38,735 A lantern in the attic window. 1297 01:20:39,344 --> 01:20:41,344 Waved up and down for danger... 1298 01:20:41,941 --> 01:20:44,121 across the window when all is clear. 1299 01:20:46,525 --> 01:20:48,165 Come on. Sergeant. 1300 01:21:06,403 --> 01:21:08,863 That is the wrong signal, Lady Blakeney. 1301 01:21:10,603 --> 01:21:12,763 That will keep Sir Percy away! 1302 01:21:19,518 --> 01:21:20,878 This is the right one. 1303 01:21:21,141 --> 01:21:22,821 This will bring him here. 1304 01:21:23,652 --> 01:21:25,592 I can see you are longing to see him. 1305 01:21:25,615 --> 01:21:27,145 As I am myself. 1306 01:21:29,444 --> 01:21:31,684 What a great actor Sir Percy is. 1307 01:21:31,955 --> 01:21:33,575 A thousand ways to cheat 1308 01:21:33,608 --> 01:21:36,388 the poor, stupid officials of the Republic. 1309 01:21:36,680 --> 01:21:39,610 Look, costumes, wigs, paint. 1310 01:21:40,582 --> 01:21:42,112 What will he be next? 1311 01:21:42,536 --> 01:21:45,986 In what disguise will he arrive when the clock strikes 10? 1312 01:21:46,573 --> 01:21:49,173 I must arrange a reassuring atmosphere for him. 1313 01:21:51,148 --> 01:21:52,498 An old woman? 1314 01:21:52,554 --> 01:21:53,964 No, he has overdone that. 1315 01:21:55,477 --> 01:21:56,937 A priest... 1316 01:21:58,139 --> 01:21:59,689 What could be more harmless? 1317 01:22:00,058 --> 01:22:02,908 And so useful when it comes to the last offices. 1318 01:22:03,975 --> 01:22:05,235 Sergeant... 1319 01:22:05,914 --> 01:22:08,394 You shall have the privilege of watching over the Republic's 1320 01:22:08,419 --> 01:22:11,079 most charming prisoner for the rest of the evening. 1321 01:22:12,897 --> 01:22:13,947 Milady. 1322 01:22:17,763 --> 01:22:19,193 Duroc - Citizen? 1323 01:22:19,215 --> 01:22:20,185 Everything ready? 1324 01:22:20,215 --> 01:22:22,525 The dragoons should be here at any moment. 1325 01:22:22,551 --> 01:22:24,741 Arrange for a firing squad as soon as they arrive. 1326 01:22:24,770 --> 01:22:27,010 Are you so certain you'll get him? 1327 01:22:27,040 --> 01:22:28,040 Quite. 1328 01:22:28,423 --> 01:22:31,083 Thanks to a charming friend I found in there. 1329 01:22:39,134 --> 01:22:40,924 - What time is it? - Quarter to 10. 1330 01:22:40,946 --> 01:22:43,066 Remember, he has to think his way is clear. 1331 01:22:43,091 --> 01:22:45,131 He must not suspect anything until he's in the trap. 1332 01:23:36,108 --> 01:23:37,371 Good evening, Monsieur Chauvelin. 1333 01:23:37,395 --> 01:23:39,205 How nice of you to wait up for me. 1334 01:23:40,768 --> 01:23:41,828 Well... 1335 01:23:41,859 --> 01:23:44,299 I had no idea you were in holy order. 1336 01:23:44,918 --> 01:23:46,718 This is only an innocent masquerade 1337 01:23:46,746 --> 01:23:48,396 like so many of your own, Sir Percy. 1338 01:23:48,422 --> 01:23:50,262 Ah, but mine were successful. 1339 01:23:50,287 --> 01:23:52,437 Mine may prove successful yet. 1340 01:23:53,019 --> 01:23:54,839 You walked in here quite freely 1341 01:23:54,974 --> 01:23:56,574 but you won't walk out a free man. 1342 01:23:57,311 --> 01:23:59,291 A prophet now, Monsieur Chauvelin. 1343 01:23:59,313 --> 01:24:01,683 The time for laughing is past, Sir Percy. 1344 01:24:02,159 --> 01:24:03,889 I've sought for a year. 1345 01:24:04,085 --> 01:24:05,615 Your energy, your ingenuity 1346 01:24:05,641 --> 01:24:08,001 your audacity have been quite admirable. 1347 01:24:08,523 --> 01:24:09,873 But now... 1348 01:24:09,998 --> 01:24:11,188 The game is up! 1349 01:24:11,509 --> 01:24:13,929 Because all the trumps are in your hand, eh? 1350 01:24:14,165 --> 01:24:15,315 Precisely. 1351 01:24:15,542 --> 01:24:17,752 This house is surrounded by my soldiers. 1352 01:24:17,777 --> 01:24:19,057 I've only to raise my voice. 1353 01:24:19,089 --> 01:24:21,339 Yes, yes, I see your point. 1354 01:24:21,603 --> 01:24:23,163 I see your point. 1355 01:24:23,975 --> 01:24:25,395 But suppose... 1356 01:24:25,540 --> 01:24:27,220 Suppose I could reach a door? 1357 01:24:28,654 --> 01:24:29,964 The night is black. 1358 01:24:30,586 --> 01:24:31,816 The sea is mine. 1359 01:24:32,214 --> 01:24:33,854 I make a dash! 1360 01:24:35,090 --> 01:24:36,530 I don't make a dash. 1361 01:24:37,944 --> 01:24:39,234 I don't need to. 1362 01:24:40,233 --> 01:24:42,123 Because one of my friends might shoot you... 1363 01:24:43,316 --> 01:24:44,996 From behind, hidden in that clock! 1364 01:24:47,648 --> 01:24:50,588 Oh, come now... No one really hides in a clock. 1365 01:24:51,445 --> 01:24:52,615 Besides... 1366 01:24:53,582 --> 01:24:55,222 I still have... 1367 01:24:55,616 --> 01:24:58,436 One more avenue of escape... 1368 01:24:58,969 --> 01:25:00,259 Open to me. 1369 01:25:00,854 --> 01:25:02,084 Don't move! 1370 01:25:02,845 --> 01:25:03,735 Gunpowder! 1371 01:25:03,761 --> 01:25:05,171 If I drop this in here... 1372 01:25:05,192 --> 01:25:06,732 I fly straight to heaven. 1373 01:25:06,946 --> 01:25:08,706 And you know where you fly to. 1374 01:25:18,777 --> 01:25:20,837 Don't be alarmed Monsieur Chauvelin. 1375 01:25:21,378 --> 01:25:23,068 It's not gunpowder. 1376 01:25:28,916 --> 01:25:30,256 Thank you Wilmot. 1377 01:25:30,282 --> 01:25:32,052 You just arrived in time. 1378 01:25:32,492 --> 01:25:35,152 I've had five delightful minutes with Monsieur Chauvelin. 1379 01:25:35,298 --> 01:25:38,338 I trust there was time enough to get Armand and de Tournay into safety. 1380 01:25:38,372 --> 01:25:39,852 Yes, they're safe. 1381 01:25:39,929 --> 01:25:40,939 Good. 1382 01:25:41,383 --> 01:25:42,793 Now we need five minutes. 1383 01:25:43,107 --> 01:25:44,807 Then I shan't trouble you anymore. 1384 01:25:45,018 --> 01:25:46,028 For the moment. 1385 01:25:46,059 --> 01:25:47,779 We must have the password, Percy. 1386 01:25:47,807 --> 01:25:49,047 The password. 1387 01:25:49,352 --> 01:25:51,022 Do we have to use force? 1388 01:25:52,513 --> 01:25:54,033 Not at all, Sir Percy. 1389 01:25:54,368 --> 01:25:56,488 The password is, "The Channel is Free". 1390 01:25:56,606 --> 01:25:57,576 Splendid! 1391 01:25:57,608 --> 01:25:58,528 Wilmot... 1392 01:25:58,551 --> 01:26:00,081 You get them onto the ship. 1393 01:26:00,309 --> 01:26:02,639 I'll take care of our friend and join you in a minute. 1394 01:26:06,475 --> 01:26:08,205 That was quite sensible of you... 1395 01:26:08,393 --> 01:26:09,503 Monsieur Chauvelin. 1396 01:26:09,530 --> 01:26:10,940 Not at all, Sir Percy. 1397 01:26:10,964 --> 01:26:11,974 You may go... 1398 01:26:11,997 --> 01:26:14,487 Because I know you'll come back of your own free will. 1399 01:26:15,140 --> 01:26:17,640 You overestimate the charm of your society. 1400 01:26:17,823 --> 01:26:21,013 I told you once, the time for jesting was over. 1401 01:26:22,115 --> 01:26:24,285 I have all the trumps in my hand. 1402 01:26:24,634 --> 01:26:27,374 In that room upstairs, there's a woman under arrest 1403 01:26:27,554 --> 01:26:30,824 who has forfeited her life by aiding the enemies of the Republic. 1404 01:26:32,586 --> 01:26:33,516 What woman? 1405 01:26:33,541 --> 01:26:35,001 Lady Blakeney. 1406 01:26:40,833 --> 01:26:42,713 Is the game up, Sir Percy? 1407 01:26:43,386 --> 01:26:45,486 Is this the last adventure? 1408 01:26:49,562 --> 01:26:50,982 I give up, Chauvelin. 1409 01:26:54,169 --> 01:26:55,469 What next? 1410 01:26:55,623 --> 01:26:58,003 There is a firing squad outside. 1411 01:26:59,889 --> 01:27:01,099 And my wife? 1412 01:27:01,241 --> 01:27:03,261 The Revolutionary Tribunal. 1413 01:27:03,562 --> 01:27:04,992 That means death! 1414 01:27:05,199 --> 01:27:08,079 It would have meant my death if I had not caught you! 1415 01:27:11,193 --> 01:27:12,863 Don't be alarmed, Sir Percy. 1416 01:27:13,982 --> 01:27:15,762 I don't want your wife's life. 1417 01:27:16,001 --> 01:27:18,101 She's free the moment you die. 1418 01:27:20,044 --> 01:27:21,544 I offer you a pact. 1419 01:27:25,668 --> 01:27:27,598 If you promise to say nothing to her... 1420 01:27:28,235 --> 01:27:30,335 If you'll send her on to my ship immediately... 1421 01:27:31,351 --> 01:27:33,471 I'll walk up in front of your firing squad. 1422 01:27:38,547 --> 01:27:39,787 I accept. 1423 01:27:40,930 --> 01:27:42,150 Sergeant! 1424 01:27:43,619 --> 01:27:45,099 Bring milady down. 1425 01:27:49,257 --> 01:27:50,477 Percy! 1426 01:27:57,502 --> 01:27:59,412 I wanted to give my life to save you. 1427 01:27:59,433 --> 01:28:01,663 - Forgive me, Percy. - My dear, it's nothing! 1428 01:28:01,664 --> 01:28:03,146 I'm in no danger. 1429 01:28:09,787 --> 01:28:10,887 Percy. 1430 01:28:11,688 --> 01:28:12,978 I want to... 1431 01:28:13,699 --> 01:28:15,109 I want to die with you! 1432 01:28:17,439 --> 01:28:18,879 Don't move, Chauvelin. 1433 01:28:19,947 --> 01:28:22,147 Our parting would be too cruel, even for you. 1434 01:28:23,188 --> 01:28:25,148 Just take her out while she's still unconscious. 1435 01:28:25,787 --> 01:28:27,667 My boat should be at the point by now. 1436 01:28:29,244 --> 01:28:30,644 Good bye, my sweet. 1437 01:28:32,032 --> 01:28:33,202 It's good to know that... 1438 01:28:33,907 --> 01:28:35,247 That you loved me... 1439 01:28:35,504 --> 01:28:36,814 A little. 1440 01:28:51,792 --> 01:28:52,892 Duroc! 1441 01:28:53,238 --> 01:28:55,778 Send this lady to the English ship around the point. 1442 01:28:55,805 --> 01:28:58,115 If anybody attempts to land, shoot! 1443 01:28:58,396 --> 01:28:59,506 Yes, Citizen. 1444 01:28:59,740 --> 01:29:01,220 You two go with him. 1445 01:29:13,073 --> 01:29:15,113 Do you like poetry, Monsieur Chauvelin? 1446 01:29:15,352 --> 01:29:17,422 "That damned elusive Pimpernel". 1447 01:29:17,446 --> 01:29:21,116 No, no... I mean, uh, poetry. 1448 01:29:24,133 --> 01:29:26,603 "This other Eden, demiparadise." 1449 01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:29,630 "This fortress built by nature for herself." 1450 01:29:29,657 --> 01:29:32,397 "Against infection and the hand of war." 1451 01:29:34,806 --> 01:29:36,836 "This happy breed of men." 1452 01:29:36,904 --> 01:29:38,434 "This little world." 1453 01:29:40,019 --> 01:29:43,729 "This precious stone, set in the silver sea." 1454 01:29:45,205 --> 01:29:46,945 "This blessed plot." 1455 01:29:47,351 --> 01:29:48,541 "This earth." 1456 01:29:48,724 --> 01:29:50,164 "This realm." 1457 01:29:51,774 --> 01:29:53,234 "This England." 1458 01:29:55,613 --> 01:29:57,423 Oh, damn me, I forget the rest. 1459 01:29:58,342 --> 01:30:00,782 Firing party, halt! 1460 01:30:00,853 --> 01:30:02,443 Left turn! 1461 01:30:02,830 --> 01:30:04,540 Ground muskets! 1462 01:30:05,596 --> 01:30:06,916 Duroc! 1463 01:30:14,629 --> 01:30:17,689 Zounds, now it appears I shan't have time to remember. 1464 01:30:40,148 --> 01:30:41,628 Shoulder muskets! 1465 01:30:42,754 --> 01:30:43,944 Left turn! 1466 01:30:44,589 --> 01:30:45,789 Quick march! 1467 01:30:54,170 --> 01:30:55,540 Ready! 1468 01:30:59,669 --> 01:31:00,669 Present. 1469 01:31:00,712 --> 01:31:01,862 Present! 1470 01:31:03,855 --> 01:31:04,755 Fire. 1471 01:31:04,866 --> 01:31:06,406 Fire! 1472 01:31:16,289 --> 01:31:17,499 Finished? 1473 01:31:17,751 --> 01:31:20,821 I'm so sorry, Monsieur Chauvelin, I had to come back for my hat. 1474 01:31:20,849 --> 01:31:23,019 It's such a cursed good hat, you know. 1475 01:31:26,625 --> 01:31:28,545 Now, now, don't look at me like that! 1476 01:31:29,098 --> 01:31:31,308 Sink me, if you don't think I'm my own ghost. 1477 01:31:31,903 --> 01:31:33,103 Duroc! 1478 01:31:33,127 --> 01:31:34,327 Captain Duroc? 1479 01:31:35,036 --> 01:31:36,566 I'm afraid it will be an hour or so 1480 01:31:36,593 --> 01:31:39,653 before poor Captain Duroc will be able to resume his duty. 1481 01:31:41,552 --> 01:31:44,132 I regret that I struck him rather violently. 1482 01:31:44,812 --> 01:31:46,002 Seize him! 1483 01:31:46,029 --> 01:31:49,239 Always so impulsive, my dear Monsieur Chauvelin. 1484 01:31:51,705 --> 01:31:53,065 This, ah... 1485 01:31:53,098 --> 01:31:54,908 is my firing squad. 1486 01:31:54,937 --> 01:31:57,187 Allow me to present Ffoulkes, Dewhurst... 1487 01:31:57,211 --> 01:31:59,371 Hastings, Belville, and the rest. 1488 01:31:59,503 --> 01:32:01,543 But of course you know all about them. 1489 01:32:03,078 --> 01:32:05,118 You look rather excited, Chauvelin. 1490 01:32:05,626 --> 01:32:07,326 I think you need cooling down. 1491 01:32:07,757 --> 01:32:08,857 So... 1492 01:32:19,701 --> 01:32:21,561 Just a peaceful little nap... 1493 01:32:21,952 --> 01:32:24,122 Like we had in the Grenville library. 1494 01:32:46,978 --> 01:32:48,878 Are we really free, Percy? 1495 01:32:49,219 --> 01:32:50,859 Not you, darling. 1496 01:32:51,404 --> 01:32:54,124 Chauvelin said you'd be free the moment I died. 1497 01:32:56,790 --> 01:32:58,750 It won't be a moment sooner. 1498 01:33:00,835 --> 01:33:03,295 Land ahead! 1499 01:33:04,234 --> 01:33:05,674 Look, Marguerite! 1500 01:33:06,451 --> 01:33:07,731 England! 104905