Back El llibertador Catalan The Elusive Pimpernel CY The Elusive Pimpernel EO El libertador (película) Spanish Le Chevalier de Londres French L'inafferrabile Primula Rossa Italian The Elusive Pimpernel (1950) Dutch The Elusive Pimpernel SH
| The Elusive Pimpernel (The Fighting Pimpernel) | |
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| Directed by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Written by | Baroness Orczy (novels) Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Produced by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Starring | David Niven Margaret Leighton Jack Hawkins Cyril Cusack Robert Coote |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
| Edited by | Reginald Mills |
| Music by | Brian Easdale |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | British Lion Films |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £477,000[1][2] |
| Box office | £133,354 (UK)[3] |
The Elusive Pimpernel is a 1950 British period adventure film by the British-based director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. It was released in the United States under the title The Fighting Pimpernel. The picture stars David Niven as Sir Percy Blakeney (a.k.a. The Scarlet Pimpernel), Margaret Leighton as Marguerite Blakeney and features Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack and Robert Coote. Originally intended to be a musical, the film was re-worked as a light-hearted drama.
- ^ Karol Kulik, Alexander Korda: The Man Who Could Work Miracles, Virgin 1990 p. 319
- ^ Kevin Macdonald (1994). Emeric Pressburger: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter. Faber and Faber. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-571-16853-8.
- ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p. 492