Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on December 31, 2014

Share This! A Thousand Sabers Flash in Conquest! Somehow the sequel to 1934’s The Scarlet Pimpernel never takes off.  As most astute viewers will know from the get go is that the follow-up The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel lacks any sense of star power.  Instead of Leslie Howard and...   read more

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on October 30, 2013

Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel Directed by Hanns Schwarz Written by Lajos Biró, Adrian Brunel, and Arthur Wimperis from a novel by  Baroness Emmuska Orczy 1937/UK London Film Productions First viewing This has a low IMDb user rating of 5.3/10, so I didn’t expect much going in.  I must say...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on August 30, 2010

As Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel enters its third act, there’s this startling suggestion… one of the good guys has been sleeping with Robespierre to get in his good graces. I’m unaware of such an overt implication in any Hollywood films of 1937. Unfortunately, that singularity i   read more