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The Scarlet Pimpernel was a 1934 American romantic adventure film directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon and Robert Morley. The film was based on the 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, which tells the story of Sir Percy Blakeney, a British nobleman who is a secret agent working to help French aristocrats escape from revolutionary France during the French Revolution.