Scarlet Pimpernel, The

Swashbuckling adventure based on the French novel by Baroness Orczy. Sir Percy Blakeney is a mild mannered aristocrat in the court of the Prince of Wales. He suspects that his wife is responsible for the arrests of some old friends during France's Reign of Terror. Meanwhile, Robespierre and the French revolutionary government are worried by a series of daring rescues of condemned nobles by a mysterious man who leaves a scarlet pimpernel behind him. Can Robespierre discover the identity of the Pimpernel?