1 00:03:41,551 --> 00:03:43,203 Look! The Prince! 2 00:03:52,125 --> 00:03:53,593 Fine body of men, the guards... 3 00:03:53,620 --> 00:03:55,133 And no soldier in the world like them. 4 00:03:55,174 --> 00:03:56,348 By gad, you're right, sir! 5 00:03:56,374 --> 00:03:59,103 Beer and beef, that's the stuff that makes soldiers. 6 00:03:59,129 --> 00:04:01,384 Besides, it gives a man... a figure 7 00:04:05,279 --> 00:04:07,295 Have you seen today's "Times" sir? 8 00:04:07,406 --> 00:04:08,414 No William. 9 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,077 - The news from Paris. - Yes. 10 00:04:10,457 --> 00:04:12,706 Over 50 people guillotined in one day. 11 00:04:12,821 --> 00:04:14,789 Damnable, useless cruelty. 12 00:04:14,823 --> 00:04:18,000 Well, what can you expect from foreigners with no sporting instinct? 13 00:04:18,033 --> 00:04:20,479 Gad, if it wasn't for our fox hunting and our pheasant shooting... 14 00:04:20,502 --> 00:04:22,282 I dare say we should be cruel too. 15 00:04:22,791 --> 00:04:25,457 Let's hope the scarlet Pimpernel will save some of the rest. 16 00:04:25,488 --> 00:04:27,647 - Do you know who he is, sir? - No. 17 00:04:27,976 --> 00:04:30,060 But I confess, I feel a little prouder... 18 00:04:30,326 --> 00:04:32,128 When I remember that he is an Englishman. 19 00:04:32,195 --> 00:04:33,197 Whoever he is... 20 00:04:33,300 --> 00:04:35,031 He'll have his work cut out in Paris. 21 00:04:31,632 --> 00:04:33,043 Did you read this, sir? 22 00:06:14,204 --> 00:06:16,441 There they go again. It's always the same. 23 00:06:16,468 --> 00:06:18,833 The drums roll, the knife falls... 24 00:06:18,875 --> 00:06:21,868 And another aristocrat parts company with his head. 25 00:06:22,661 --> 00:06:24,067 Very monotonous. 26 00:06:24,284 --> 00:06:26,784 And so clumsy, that great ugly machine. 27 00:06:28,441 --> 00:06:31,172 When all they need is a sharper razor. 28 00:06:31,730 --> 00:06:33,238 A quick wrist and flick! 29 00:06:33,323 --> 00:06:34,257 Here, steady! 30 00:06:34,283 --> 00:06:35,904 Ho-ho, you're all right, partner. 31 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,324 I wish they'd give me a few aristocrats to shave. 32 00:06:39,550 --> 00:06:40,450 Eh, Jacques? 33 00:06:40,503 --> 00:06:42,305 Then we should see some sport. 34 00:06:42,331 --> 00:06:43,305 And you would! 35 00:06:43,331 --> 00:06:45,490 When you see me dealing with the Scarlet Pimpernel. 36 00:06:45,524 --> 00:06:47,521 - The what? - The Scarlet Pimpernel! 37 00:06:47,742 --> 00:06:49,249 Haven't you heard? 38 00:06:49,554 --> 00:06:53,657 There's a band of Englishmen helping these cursed aristos out of the country. 39 00:06:54,045 --> 00:06:57,323 Their chief is the only man who ever cheated Madame Guillotine. 40 00:06:59,159 --> 00:07:01,684 He's known by the title of the Scarlet Pimpernel. 41 00:07:02,055 --> 00:07:03,342 Who is he? 42 00:07:03,420 --> 00:07:05,159 Oh... that's the mystery. 43 00:07:44,304 --> 00:07:46,327 So you're a farmer from Nordesque, are you? 44 00:07:46,550 --> 00:07:47,565 Yes, sir. 45 00:07:57,990 --> 00:08:02,007 You thought you could fool me with a disguise like that! 46 00:08:02,552 --> 00:08:05,147 Well, I'll keep this wig of yours... 47 00:08:05,284 --> 00:08:08,412 Because after tomorrow you won't have a head to put it on! 48 00:08:09,872 --> 00:08:12,525 And I shall be delighted to visit Madame Guillotine... 49 00:08:12,551 --> 00:08:17,076 And make the acquaintance of the only decent person left in France. 50 00:08:17,561 --> 00:08:20,624 Captain, I say "Death to the Republic... 51 00:08:20,650 --> 00:08:22,140 and long live the King!" 52 00:08:22,166 --> 00:08:23,699 Take him away! 53 00:08:29,615 --> 00:08:30,925 Stupid fool! 54 00:08:31,674 --> 00:08:34,547 That makes the third aristocrat I've caught this week. 55 00:08:36,143 --> 00:08:38,747 I can smell 'em through any disguise. 56 00:09:11,113 --> 00:09:13,066 Thank heaven for the game of chess. 57 00:09:13,458 --> 00:09:16,909 It enables us to forget the more disagreeable realities of life. 58 00:09:17,556 --> 00:09:19,531 I'm not so sure it is a good thing. 59 00:09:19,747 --> 00:09:22,681 We've been too detached from reality all our lives. 60 00:09:23,044 --> 00:09:24,639 That's what caused the revolution. 61 00:09:24,834 --> 00:09:26,912 - Possibly. - Undoubtedly! 62 00:09:26,993 --> 00:09:30,230 If we'd only had eyes to see our own follies, we shouldn't be here now... 63 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:31,976 Waiting to be shaved... 64 00:09:32,155 --> 00:09:33,664 By the national razor. 65 00:09:35,635 --> 00:09:37,238 Which is the Count de Tournay? 66 00:09:37,632 --> 00:09:39,236 I am the Count de Tournay's daughter. 67 00:09:39,709 --> 00:09:41,638 My father is over there playing the chess. 68 00:09:42,422 --> 00:09:43,486 This is my mother. 69 00:09:48,990 --> 00:09:50,473 The Count de Tournay? 70 00:09:54,681 --> 00:09:56,602 If you will look at the passage I have marked... 71 00:09:56,701 --> 00:09:58,171 Your spirits will be uplifted. 72 00:09:58,197 --> 00:10:00,157 We are not afraid to die, Father. 73 00:10:00,458 --> 00:10:02,990 Even so, it is sometimes better to live. 74 00:10:22,012 --> 00:10:24,074 - How many, Captain? - Sixty-four. 75 00:10:24,124 --> 00:10:27,093 Robespierre gives Madame Guillotine extra fodder today. 76 00:10:30,702 --> 00:10:32,662 The former Duc de Tours. 77 00:10:33,586 --> 00:10:35,792 The former Abbé de Saint Preux. 78 00:10:36,309 --> 00:10:38,817 The former Count and Countess de Larnai. 79 00:10:39,782 --> 00:10:41,551 The former Madame de Nijon. 80 00:10:42,033 --> 00:10:44,017 The former Count d'Eterais. 81 00:10:44,709 --> 00:10:47,264 The former Marquis de Jouvence and family. 82 00:10:48,384 --> 00:10:50,678 The former Marquis de Robeaupier. 83 00:10:51,243 --> 00:10:53,155 The two Countesses Herret. 84 00:10:54,085 --> 00:10:56,283 The former Mademoiselle de Bournard. 85 00:10:57,197 --> 00:11:00,170 The two former Duchesses Passy and Boniveaux. 86 00:11:01,669 --> 00:11:03,494 The former Marquis de Marais. 87 00:11:04,434 --> 00:11:06,847 The former Count de Tournay and family. 88 00:11:09,535 --> 00:11:11,640 The former Countess de Cherainville. 89 00:11:12,436 --> 00:11:14,247 The former Madame de Piccard. 90 00:11:14,676 --> 00:11:15,635 Come. 91 00:11:15,984 --> 00:11:17,826 The former Count d'Arblai. 92 00:11:38,075 --> 00:11:40,273 - Are you de Tournay? - I am. 93 00:11:40,416 --> 00:11:43,460 You are remanded. Citizen Robespierre wants to see you. 94 00:11:43,573 --> 00:11:45,669 - Thank God! - The rest of you, get on! 95 00:11:45,716 --> 00:11:46,720 Take him inside! 96 00:11:46,746 --> 00:11:48,398 Come on! Come on! 97 00:12:14,442 --> 00:12:15,804 Get out of the way! 98 00:12:16,261 --> 00:12:17,356 Get out! 99 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,232 You must have courage, Suzanne. 100 00:12:23,398 --> 00:12:24,621 Remember... 101 00:12:24,647 --> 00:12:27,005 The Scarlet Pimpernel is waiting to save us. 102 00:12:27,031 --> 00:12:29,111 He's never failed to keep his promise. 103 00:12:31,610 --> 00:12:33,224 But it's too late! 104 00:12:46,815 --> 00:12:49,176 Long live the King of France! 105 00:12:52,641 --> 00:12:54,783 Long live the King of France! 106 00:13:45,891 --> 00:13:47,717 Look at me whip, me hearties. 107 00:13:47,854 --> 00:13:49,068 Look at it! 108 00:13:49,110 --> 00:13:51,263 Three and twenty locks of hair in it. 109 00:13:51,411 --> 00:13:53,020 There they are... There's... 110 00:13:53,213 --> 00:13:55,222 There's the Duc de Rouilly. 111 00:13:55,519 --> 00:13:57,750 There's his handsome wife, the Duchess. 112 00:13:58,135 --> 00:14:00,009 And here's the hair of her lover... 113 00:14:00,113 --> 00:14:02,671 - The handsome... - Where's your passport, hag? 114 00:14:02,969 --> 00:14:04,973 He takes me for an aristocrat. 115 00:14:08,298 --> 00:14:09,761 Well, you're right, Captain. 116 00:14:09,864 --> 00:14:11,699 Can't be too careful, can you? 117 00:14:12,051 --> 00:14:14,756 No, you can't be too... Here, here's me passport. 118 00:14:18,301 --> 00:14:21,443 This says "Citizeness Renard and grandson." 119 00:14:21,958 --> 00:14:23,165 Where's the grandson? 120 00:14:23,390 --> 00:14:25,096 He's in the cart, poor darling. 121 00:14:25,122 --> 00:14:27,027 Yes? What's the matter with him? 122 00:14:27,078 --> 00:14:28,589 He's got the plague. 123 00:14:30,077 --> 00:14:32,385 - The horrible black plague. - Plague? 124 00:14:32,411 --> 00:14:33,617 Yes. 125 00:14:33,828 --> 00:14:36,955 I don't think I shall get him alive as far as Chambois. 126 00:14:37,669 --> 00:14:40,106 Give me... give me a light from your pipe, will you Captain? 127 00:14:40,132 --> 00:14:41,575 Keep away from me with your plague! 128 00:14:41,601 --> 00:14:42,713 Get out of here, quick! 129 00:14:42,739 --> 00:14:44,504 And when you come back, try to pass another gate. 130 00:14:44,527 --> 00:14:46,183 For you won't pass through this one again! 131 00:14:46,210 --> 00:14:48,136 You are right, Captain. You are right. 132 00:14:48,179 --> 00:14:51,135 But I'll be back... somehow. 133 00:15:14,185 --> 00:15:16,281 - Who's in charge here? - I am. 134 00:15:16,625 --> 00:15:18,899 An old hag of a woman will pass this way in a cart. 135 00:15:18,952 --> 00:15:20,881 You are to stop her, and arrest her. 136 00:15:21,241 --> 00:15:23,109 Did you say an old hag? 137 00:15:23,551 --> 00:15:24,568 You heard me. 138 00:15:24,833 --> 00:15:27,303 But, but she passed through here some time ago. 139 00:15:27,366 --> 00:15:29,844 - Her passport was... - You miserable fool! 140 00:15:29,895 --> 00:15:32,473 You blundering idiot! Did you search the cart? 141 00:15:32,943 --> 00:15:36,526 No, no, I... her grandson was inside with the plague. 142 00:15:36,580 --> 00:15:39,939 - Would you expect me to expose... - You were expected to use your brains! 143 00:15:40,243 --> 00:15:41,840 Now I see you haven't any! 144 00:15:41,888 --> 00:15:45,805 That sick grandson was really three aristocrats snatched from the guillotine! 145 00:15:46,163 --> 00:15:47,853 Ten thousand hells! 146 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:49,867 And the old hag, who was she? 147 00:15:49,946 --> 00:15:52,241 The old hag, my clever Captain... 148 00:15:52,413 --> 00:15:55,052 Was that cursed Englishman, the Scarlet Pimpernel. 149 00:15:55,751 --> 00:15:58,371 - Forward, we'll catch him this time! - Open the gates! 150 00:17:04,471 --> 00:17:05,581 What's that? 151 00:17:06,184 --> 00:17:07,143 What? 152 00:17:09,846 --> 00:17:11,598 Sounds like a troop of horsemen. 153 00:17:14,976 --> 00:17:16,436 We're being pursued! 154 00:17:42,243 --> 00:17:44,250 Don't be frightened, Ladies. You are among friends. 155 00:17:44,276 --> 00:17:47,219 - But this soldiers? - My friends, Mademoiselle, and yours. 156 00:17:47,247 --> 00:17:48,872 Are you the Scarlet Pimpernel? 157 00:17:48,898 --> 00:17:51,336 I am only a humble instrument in the hands of our great leader. 158 00:17:51,361 --> 00:17:53,218 - How many are you? - Twenty, madam. 159 00:17:53,244 --> 00:17:54,847 One to command, nineteen to obey. 160 00:17:54,872 --> 00:17:57,579 - Shall we see your leader? - I'm sorry, I must ask you to hurry. 161 00:18:30,953 --> 00:18:33,031 - Where's de Tournay? - Taken back into prison. 162 00:18:33,057 --> 00:18:34,208 - Why? - We don't know. 163 00:18:34,234 --> 00:18:35,678 So we have to come back and take him. 164 00:18:35,934 --> 00:18:37,855 - How are things at Calais? - Lawson's there. 165 00:18:37,881 --> 00:18:39,657 - And Ashurst? - He hadn't arrived when we left. 166 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:40,384 Oh hadn't he? 167 00:18:40,410 --> 00:18:42,038 His time sense is defective... that's twice. 168 00:18:42,061 --> 00:18:43,157 They may have arrested him. 169 00:18:43,183 --> 00:18:45,016 They're very careful at the Channel ports nowadays. 170 00:18:45,039 --> 00:18:46,907 My order to you is that you're not to be arrested. 171 00:18:46,930 --> 00:18:48,519 And I expect my orders to be obeyed. 172 00:18:48,545 --> 00:18:49,649 Yes Percy. 173 00:18:50,136 --> 00:18:51,754 You, Wilmot and Grant go back to Paris. 174 00:18:51,780 --> 00:18:53,276 My brother-in-law will follow you there. 175 00:18:53,837 --> 00:18:56,065 All three of you will get your next instructions from Quentin. 176 00:18:56,088 --> 00:18:57,526 Well, goodbye. 177 00:18:57,575 --> 00:18:59,195 And remember... don't get caught. 178 00:18:59,221 --> 00:19:00,506 - Right. - Right. 179 00:19:00,592 --> 00:19:02,288 - Good luck! - Goodbye. 180 00:19:02,322 --> 00:19:03,449 Go! 181 00:19:06,581 --> 00:19:07,652 Giddap! 182 00:19:20,590 --> 00:19:21,613 Well... 183 00:19:22,607 --> 00:19:24,337 Why did they keep de Tournay back? 184 00:19:24,363 --> 00:19:26,349 Because Robespierre wanted to see him. 185 00:19:26,453 --> 00:19:29,255 And Robespierre wants to see him because the Ambassador of the Republic, 186 00:19:29,282 --> 00:19:30,433 has come over from London. 187 00:19:30,472 --> 00:19:31,530 Chauvelin? 188 00:19:31,562 --> 00:19:32,435 Why? 189 00:19:32,461 --> 00:19:34,166 All in your honor, Percy. 190 00:19:34,197 --> 00:19:36,893 Your work is becoming even more dangerous than it was. 191 00:19:36,919 --> 00:19:38,384 Our work, Armand. 192 00:19:39,929 --> 00:19:41,343 You go back to Paris at once. 193 00:19:41,935 --> 00:19:43,967 Find out everything you can about Chauvelin 194 00:19:44,104 --> 00:19:45,791 If he goes to London, you go too. 195 00:19:46,970 --> 00:19:48,756 Our most dangerous enemy... 196 00:19:49,226 --> 00:19:50,813 Is citizen Chauvelin. 197 00:20:04,211 --> 00:20:05,441 Citizen Chauvelin. 198 00:20:05,626 --> 00:20:06,648 Citizen Chauvelin! 199 00:20:10,406 --> 00:20:12,517 My dear Chauvelin, I'm very sorry that I have to ask you 200 00:20:12,557 --> 00:20:14,549 to undertake the journey to London. 201 00:20:14,904 --> 00:20:18,198 But this matter of the Scarlet Pimpernel has become a national menace. 202 00:20:20,658 --> 00:20:22,270 How can you expect me to detect him 203 00:20:22,296 --> 00:20:23,874 in a country that hates us like the devil 204 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:25,479 and puts every obstacle in my way? 205 00:20:25,505 --> 00:20:27,568 We expect you to overcome obstacles 206 00:20:27,937 --> 00:20:29,731 like our generals in the field. 207 00:20:30,091 --> 00:20:32,861 They know that to lose the battle means the guillotine. 208 00:20:33,588 --> 00:20:35,024 Have you any plans? 209 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:37,751 Naturally. 210 00:20:38,705 --> 00:20:41,539 We may assume that the Scarlet Pimpernel and his gang... 211 00:20:41,602 --> 00:20:42,863 speaks perfect French. 212 00:20:43,737 --> 00:20:46,104 They belong therefore to a class that has been brought up 213 00:20:46,130 --> 00:20:47,955 by French nurses and French tutors. 214 00:20:48,116 --> 00:20:49,461 So far not bad. 215 00:20:50,038 --> 00:20:51,911 I have a list of all the likely names. 216 00:20:52,508 --> 00:20:54,112 I have them watched day and night. 217 00:20:54,162 --> 00:20:56,035 Sooner or later, I'll draw the net. 218 00:20:56,204 --> 00:20:58,284 You think de Tournay might be useful? 219 00:20:58,516 --> 00:20:59,599 Possibly. 220 00:21:04,163 --> 00:21:05,201 De Tournay, 221 00:21:11,168 --> 00:21:12,861 the former Count de Tournay 222 00:21:12,924 --> 00:21:15,836 Former Ambassador to the former King of France in London. 223 00:21:16,207 --> 00:21:17,483 Citizen Chauvelin 224 00:21:17,509 --> 00:21:19,843 Ambassador of the French Republic in London. 225 00:21:20,185 --> 00:21:21,932 De Tournay, I want to make you an offer. 226 00:21:22,767 --> 00:21:24,195 We offer you your life. 227 00:21:25,303 --> 00:21:26,914 All we ask in return... 228 00:21:26,955 --> 00:21:29,497 is that you merely get in touch with your many English friends... 229 00:21:29,519 --> 00:21:31,043 and soon you will be able to tell us 230 00:21:31,069 --> 00:21:33,733 who is the man known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. 231 00:21:33,782 --> 00:21:35,568 You want me to be a spy? 232 00:21:35,905 --> 00:21:38,729 You have been too long in politics not to be a realist. 233 00:21:38,990 --> 00:21:40,800 A little piece of information... 234 00:21:41,021 --> 00:21:42,194 we give you your life. 235 00:21:42,220 --> 00:21:43,624 God gave me my life... 236 00:21:43,650 --> 00:21:46,006 He will take it away as soon as it pleases Him. 237 00:21:47,108 --> 00:21:49,534 And now my family has gone to the guillotine... 238 00:21:49,562 --> 00:21:51,143 My one wish is to follow. 239 00:21:53,617 --> 00:21:56,979 Would it alter your outlook to hear that your family is alive? 240 00:21:57,062 --> 00:21:58,403 Don't trifle with me. 241 00:21:58,446 --> 00:22:01,531 I sent them to the guillotine for the future happiness of the human race... 242 00:22:01,624 --> 00:22:03,057 But I do not allow torture. 243 00:22:03,083 --> 00:22:04,042 Where are they? 244 00:22:04,073 --> 00:22:06,264 I saw them being dragged towards the tumbrel. 245 00:22:06,416 --> 00:22:07,667 On their way to the guillotine 246 00:22:07,693 --> 00:22:09,793 the band of the Scarlet Pimpernel snatched them away. 247 00:22:09,819 --> 00:22:10,970 Where are they? 248 00:22:10,996 --> 00:22:13,330 Probably in England by this time. 249 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,509 To His Majesty King George III. 250 00:22:25,731 --> 00:22:29,039 God bless him for his hospitality to us poor exiles. 251 00:22:31,807 --> 00:22:33,323 To King Louis of France... 252 00:22:33,525 --> 00:22:35,199 May God protect him. 253 00:22:39,191 --> 00:22:40,770 And to your husband, madam. 254 00:22:41,411 --> 00:22:43,460 I hope the Scarlet Pimpernel and you gentlemen 255 00:22:43,492 --> 00:22:45,255 will rescue him, as you did us. 256 00:22:46,017 --> 00:22:47,469 The Scarlet Pimpernel... 257 00:22:48,005 --> 00:22:50,109 What a droll name... What does it mean? 258 00:22:50,135 --> 00:22:52,326 It is a humble wayside flower, mademoiselle. 259 00:22:52,710 --> 00:22:55,774 And it hides the identity of the best and bravest man in all the world. 260 00:22:56,056 --> 00:22:58,197 Do you know, Sir Andrew, my best friend in London 261 00:22:58,223 --> 00:22:59,429 Marguerite St. Just? 262 00:22:59,455 --> 00:23:00,979 Suzanne, how often am I to tell you 263 00:23:01,005 --> 00:23:03,474 I will not have that woman's name mentioned in my presence. 264 00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:05,834 But mother, you can't believe that dreadful story. 265 00:23:05,865 --> 00:23:07,881 - What story? - It's the truth. 266 00:23:07,907 --> 00:23:09,109 Marguerite St. Just... 267 00:23:09,158 --> 00:23:12,276 Denounced the Marquis de St. Cyr and his family to the tribunal. 268 00:23:12,396 --> 00:23:14,111 They all went to the guillotine. 269 00:23:14,374 --> 00:23:16,811 - Marguerite St. Just? - Yes. 270 00:23:17,232 --> 00:23:18,765 She married an Englishman. 271 00:23:18,963 --> 00:23:20,166 Do you know her? 272 00:23:20,191 --> 00:23:21,575 Know her? 273 00:23:21,791 --> 00:23:24,097 Everybody in London knows Lady Blakeney. 274 00:23:40,118 --> 00:23:42,793 Lady Blakeney, have you something in your mouth? 275 00:23:44,597 --> 00:23:46,234 Not now, Mr. Romney. 276 00:23:46,321 --> 00:23:48,712 I can't do justice to that lovely face 277 00:23:48,745 --> 00:23:50,482 when it's all bulged out with bonbon. 278 00:23:50,518 --> 00:23:52,659 You may talk if you like, but no bonbon! 279 00:23:53,068 --> 00:23:55,019 And no gestures, please! 280 00:23:56,169 --> 00:23:57,498 All right, Mr. Romney. 281 00:24:01,133 --> 00:24:04,466 I'll tell you what it is about the Pimpernel that tantalizes me so. 282 00:24:04,617 --> 00:24:06,454 It is his insufferable modesty. 283 00:24:06,579 --> 00:24:08,016 There's no excuse for it! 284 00:24:08,506 --> 00:24:11,307 It's maddening to think that somewhere there's a man as marvelous as that. 285 00:24:11,341 --> 00:24:12,634 And we never see him! 286 00:24:12,661 --> 00:24:14,286 He is of no use to us whatever! 287 00:24:14,312 --> 00:24:17,170 Lady Blakeney, I said no gestures, please! 288 00:24:17,198 --> 00:24:19,825 Oh, you must remember that I am a French woman... 289 00:24:19,858 --> 00:24:22,335 and when I talk I must use these as well as this. 290 00:24:31,069 --> 00:24:33,227 The de Tournay family arrived in Dover today. 291 00:24:33,253 --> 00:24:34,715 All except the father. 292 00:24:34,791 --> 00:24:36,346 We have to go back for him. 293 00:24:36,686 --> 00:24:38,796 It's going to be devilish awkward after what's happened. 294 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,182 Well I'll go. So will Hastings if you'll let us. 295 00:24:41,226 --> 00:24:42,916 We will all go if it comes to that. 296 00:24:42,990 --> 00:24:44,768 But even so, we're only 20. 297 00:24:44,897 --> 00:24:47,009 Yesterday, 30 people went to the guillotine. 298 00:24:47,090 --> 00:24:49,070 Are you trying to suggest that there aren't enough of us? 299 00:24:49,093 --> 00:24:50,520 Perhaps that there isn't a decent Englishman 300 00:24:50,543 --> 00:24:52,100 that wouldn't be proud to join us. 301 00:24:52,145 --> 00:24:54,603 We could be 500, a thousand within a week. 302 00:24:54,726 --> 00:24:57,710 And within another week everyone of us would be a marked man. 303 00:24:58,253 --> 00:25:00,502 We shouldn't be able to rescue a single soul. 304 00:25:01,454 --> 00:25:03,055 Mere force is useless against people 305 00:25:03,081 --> 00:25:04,716 who are neither cowards nor fools. 306 00:25:04,802 --> 00:25:06,683 We must match courage with courage... 307 00:25:06,851 --> 00:25:09,786 and cunning with still greater cunning if we're going to do anything at all. 308 00:25:10,004 --> 00:25:11,861 We are all willing to give our lives. 309 00:25:11,968 --> 00:25:13,452 But we must do more than that. 310 00:25:13,618 --> 00:25:15,332 We must mask our identities... 311 00:25:15,533 --> 00:25:17,351 Suffer the humiliation of being taken 312 00:25:17,377 --> 00:25:20,740 for fops, fools, nitwits... cowards 313 00:25:21,318 --> 00:25:24,461 So many people die every day that could be saved. 314 00:25:24,504 --> 00:25:26,115 You think I don't feel that? 315 00:25:26,422 --> 00:25:28,985 You think I like sitting there in the shadow of the knife... 316 00:25:29,154 --> 00:25:31,143 while one head falls after another? 317 00:25:31,224 --> 00:25:32,954 People I know and love. 318 00:25:33,005 --> 00:25:35,020 Innocent people... kindly people... 319 00:25:35,304 --> 00:25:36,908 Herded like sheep... 320 00:25:37,394 --> 00:25:38,858 butchered like cattle... 321 00:25:39,046 --> 00:25:41,756 by men who make high-sounding principles and excuses 322 00:25:41,782 --> 00:25:43,488 for the most bestial cruelty. 323 00:25:43,616 --> 00:25:46,549 Robespierre's liberty, his equality... 324 00:25:50,216 --> 00:25:51,686 Well... 325 00:25:52,029 --> 00:25:54,923 sink me, if it isn't Colonel Ramsbottom. 326 00:25:57,470 --> 00:25:59,551 Well. how are you Ramsbottom? 327 00:25:59,937 --> 00:26:01,470 Winterbottom, Sir! 328 00:26:04,256 --> 00:26:06,724 Ramsbottom... what a ridiculous mistake... 329 00:26:09,722 --> 00:26:11,606 Allow me to explain, Colonel... 330 00:26:12,020 --> 00:26:13,760 Here's that ass, Blakeney! 331 00:26:14,183 --> 00:26:15,466 I'm off! 332 00:26:25,444 --> 00:26:27,909 Odd's blood, this club wants cheering up. 333 00:26:28,415 --> 00:26:30,571 Sink me, the place is a mausoleum. 334 00:26:30,907 --> 00:26:32,459 Are you being offensive, Sir? 335 00:26:32,485 --> 00:26:34,296 Who Sir? Me, sir? No, sir! 336 00:26:35,309 --> 00:26:37,833 Stab me. I'm bubbling over with good humor this morning. 337 00:26:37,867 --> 00:26:40,113 Would you believe me, I've just written a masterpiece? 338 00:26:40,139 --> 00:26:41,480 - Who, sir? You, sir? - Me, sir! 339 00:26:41,506 --> 00:26:42,594 - No, sir! - Yes, sir! 340 00:26:42,639 --> 00:26:44,822 All about this mysterious Pimpernel fellow. 341 00:26:45,092 --> 00:26:46,723 How it came to me, heaven only knows 342 00:26:46,743 --> 00:26:48,460 because it was the busiest moment of the day... 343 00:26:48,483 --> 00:26:50,155 Darn, I was tying my cravat. 344 00:26:50,229 --> 00:26:51,746 Oh well, here it is. 345 00:26:52,756 --> 00:26:54,288 "The Scarlet Pimpernel" 346 00:26:54,314 --> 00:26:56,553 by Sir Percival Blakeney, Baronet. 347 00:26:56,582 --> 00:26:58,327 - What? - Well, that's the title. 348 00:26:58,669 --> 00:26:59,931 "They seek him here, 349 00:26:59,994 --> 00:27:01,344 "they seek him there. 350 00:27:01,376 --> 00:27:03,693 "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. 351 00:27:04,198 --> 00:27:06,016 "Is he in heaven? 352 00:27:06,111 --> 00:27:07,673 "Is he in hell? 353 00:27:07,950 --> 00:27:10,343 That damned, elusive Pimpernel." 354 00:27:10,386 --> 00:27:11,248 What? 355 00:27:11,273 --> 00:27:12,473 Hmm, not bad! 356 00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:13,911 Not bad? It's damned good! 357 00:27:13,950 --> 00:27:16,166 I'll write it out, then you can all learn it. 358 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:17,596 Yes... 359 00:27:18,013 --> 00:27:20,361 Well... Good day, gentlemen. 360 00:27:20,564 --> 00:27:22,180 Goodbye. Higgenbottom. 361 00:27:22,206 --> 00:27:23,494 Winterbottom, curse you! 362 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:25,830 I beg your pardon? Didn't I say Winterbottom? 363 00:27:26,027 --> 00:27:27,726 Bunch of young jackanapes! 364 00:27:29,794 --> 00:27:32,408 They're all alike, this fashionable puppies. 365 00:27:32,534 --> 00:27:33,845 Insufferable! 366 00:27:33,998 --> 00:27:35,361 What that young man needs... 367 00:27:35,397 --> 00:27:37,452 Is a year or two of hard campaigning. 368 00:27:37,478 --> 00:27:38,968 Facing powder... 369 00:27:40,615 --> 00:27:41,766 and shot... 370 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,436 undergoing privation. 371 00:27:43,470 --> 00:27:46,524 I can't imagine Blakeney running into much danger. 372 00:27:47,367 --> 00:27:48,597 Not he! 373 00:27:49,340 --> 00:27:51,094 He doesn't belong to our vintage. 374 00:27:52,637 --> 00:27:53,532 It's not my fault! 375 00:27:53,558 --> 00:27:55,566 It's a matter of infinitely small importance to me... 376 00:27:55,592 --> 00:27:56,812 whose fault it is. 377 00:27:57,796 --> 00:28:00,063 The man who could put starch in my jabot... 378 00:28:00,089 --> 00:28:03,145 Is equally capable of putting poison in my coffee. 379 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:06,833 There, you see? 380 00:28:06,859 --> 00:28:09,174 I'm a laughingstock, and rightly so. 381 00:28:09,494 --> 00:28:11,129 Look at the cursed thing. 382 00:28:11,155 --> 00:28:13,115 Sticking out like a barber's pole. 383 00:28:13,417 --> 00:28:15,364 Sink me, the thing is a disaster. 384 00:28:16,428 --> 00:28:18,453 Go away, Brinker, you dreadful fellow. 385 00:28:18,816 --> 00:28:20,205 Ladies... 386 00:28:20,237 --> 00:28:21,602 Your servant. 387 00:28:21,983 --> 00:28:23,300 Marguerite... 388 00:28:23,852 --> 00:28:25,007 your slave. 389 00:28:28,258 --> 00:28:29,712 Ah, Romney. 390 00:28:30,197 --> 00:28:31,371 How are you? 391 00:28:31,490 --> 00:28:33,413 And how is the portrait progressing? 392 00:28:41,059 --> 00:28:42,940 The eyes are wrong, aren't they? 393 00:28:43,684 --> 00:28:46,157 And is the nose all right? 394 00:28:50,654 --> 00:28:51,591 You know... 395 00:28:51,617 --> 00:28:53,609 I rather think you missed the mouth... 396 00:28:53,634 --> 00:28:54,754 altogether. 397 00:28:56,052 --> 00:28:57,479 Yes, you have. 398 00:28:58,032 --> 00:29:00,245 Otherwise, it's the image of her. 399 00:29:02,341 --> 00:29:04,027 I think that will be enough for today. 400 00:29:04,045 --> 00:29:05,337 Poor Mr. Romney. 401 00:29:05,624 --> 00:29:07,099 You are tired, and so am I. 402 00:29:07,125 --> 00:29:07,964 Tired? 403 00:29:08,006 --> 00:29:09,601 Zounds, me too. 404 00:29:09,793 --> 00:29:11,096 You know, dear lady... 405 00:29:11,152 --> 00:29:13,980 I've just been to Bath to be cured of the fatigue. 406 00:29:14,927 --> 00:29:17,381 And now I'm so fatigued by the cure that I... 407 00:29:17,619 --> 00:29:20,264 I really think that I shall have to go to Bath again... 408 00:29:20,529 --> 00:29:22,068 to be cured of the fatigue. 409 00:29:24,889 --> 00:29:26,398 It has been a charming party. 410 00:29:26,432 --> 00:29:27,908 - Goodbye! - Goodbye. 411 00:29:27,996 --> 00:29:29,430 - Goodbye. - Goodbye! 412 00:29:29,522 --> 00:29:31,268 Bye, Lady Blakeney, thank you. 413 00:29:31,387 --> 00:29:32,645 Bye, Sir Percy... 414 00:29:35,579 --> 00:29:37,190 Goodbye, Sir Percy... 415 00:29:44,887 --> 00:29:46,268 Goodbye, Sir Percy! 416 00:29:46,294 --> 00:29:47,883 Goodbye, Goodbye... 417 00:29:48,269 --> 00:29:49,635 Goodbye... 418 00:30:15,879 --> 00:30:17,260 What do you think of it? 419 00:30:18,403 --> 00:30:19,745 It's clever... 420 00:30:20,189 --> 00:30:21,967 But there's something lacking. 421 00:30:22,333 --> 00:30:23,309 What? 422 00:30:23,947 --> 00:30:25,120 I don't know. 423 00:30:25,894 --> 00:30:27,243 There's a look... 424 00:30:27,354 --> 00:30:28,980 A look in the eyes... 425 00:30:29,753 --> 00:30:30,979 He's lost it. 426 00:30:33,375 --> 00:30:34,838 Perhaps, I've lost it. 427 00:30:38,921 --> 00:30:40,607 Perhaps it was happiness. 428 00:30:41,834 --> 00:30:43,272 Good gad, my dear! 429 00:30:43,319 --> 00:30:45,699 How you could be unhappy. I can't imagine. 430 00:30:46,377 --> 00:30:47,431 Can't you? 431 00:30:48,525 --> 00:30:50,509 Percy... Can't you? 432 00:30:50,535 --> 00:30:52,441 Oh, cursed if I can. 433 00:30:52,710 --> 00:30:55,309 Why, you're the most courted woman in town. 434 00:30:55,335 --> 00:30:57,419 - By whom? - By everybody. 435 00:30:57,463 --> 00:30:58,645 Except you! 436 00:30:58,711 --> 00:31:01,010 Dear me, my dear, I'm your husband. 437 00:31:02,730 --> 00:31:05,103 Months after we were married, we were still happy... 438 00:31:05,376 --> 00:31:07,169 And then came this... 439 00:31:07,381 --> 00:31:08,745 Estrangement. 440 00:31:08,946 --> 00:31:11,228 Which Heaven knows, is none of my making. 441 00:31:11,318 --> 00:31:12,942 Can you honestly say that? 442 00:31:12,994 --> 00:31:15,285 Can you honestly deny that you've changed? 443 00:31:17,258 --> 00:31:18,417 So changed... 444 00:31:18,443 --> 00:31:20,045 That I scarcely know you. 445 00:31:21,171 --> 00:31:22,833 You're never with me now. 446 00:31:23,832 --> 00:31:26,213 You're always away on some pretext or other. 447 00:31:29,430 --> 00:31:30,878 I'm always alone. 448 00:31:35,768 --> 00:31:38,262 Then I've mighty good news for you, my dear. 449 00:31:38,835 --> 00:31:40,818 Your brother's arriving from Paris. 450 00:31:40,963 --> 00:31:42,512 - Armand? - Yes. 451 00:31:42,676 --> 00:31:43,602 When? 452 00:31:43,628 --> 00:31:44,803 At any moment. 453 00:31:45,363 --> 00:31:47,998 And then you won't be alone, will you? 454 00:31:51,683 --> 00:31:53,121 When am I going to see you again? 455 00:31:53,154 --> 00:31:54,564 Whenever you wish to. 456 00:31:54,872 --> 00:31:56,465 Well then, every day. 457 00:31:56,491 --> 00:31:57,520 Suzanne! 458 00:32:32,831 --> 00:32:34,252 Where's the chief? 459 00:32:35,705 --> 00:32:38,136 He went to town yesterday as soon as he arrived here. 460 00:32:38,161 --> 00:32:39,661 - Any order for us? - Yes... 461 00:32:39,815 --> 00:32:42,442 We have to wait here till tonight for a message from Armand St. Just. 462 00:32:42,467 --> 00:32:43,427 Right. 463 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,164 - Did you follow them? - Yes. 464 00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,778 A sailor gave a letter to Sir Andrew Ffoulkes. 465 00:32:59,864 --> 00:33:01,016 Did you get it? 466 00:33:01,047 --> 00:33:02,476 It wasn't easy, but... 467 00:33:02,815 --> 00:33:04,515 We had six men there. 468 00:33:05,485 --> 00:33:06,708 Where are they now? 469 00:33:06,741 --> 00:33:08,375 Gagged and bound on the ship. 470 00:33:08,431 --> 00:33:09,591 And the letter? 471 00:33:21,055 --> 00:33:22,170 You will release them tomorrow. 472 00:33:22,193 --> 00:33:23,698 Watch every move they make. 473 00:33:37,559 --> 00:33:38,718 Maurier... 474 00:33:38,777 --> 00:33:40,079 Go over to France at once. 475 00:33:40,105 --> 00:33:42,071 The moment St. Just returns, arrest him. 476 00:33:44,212 --> 00:33:45,863 Armand St. Just. 477 00:33:47,911 --> 00:33:49,681 Marguerite St. Just... 478 00:33:51,607 --> 00:33:53,147 The famous actress... 479 00:33:54,686 --> 00:33:57,659 She will give a great performance by Republican command... 480 00:33:58,365 --> 00:34:00,119 For her brother's sake. 481 00:34:02,237 --> 00:34:04,876 Percy, I don't want Armand to go back to France. 482 00:34:05,078 --> 00:34:07,439 If you'll help me we can keep him in England. 483 00:34:08,540 --> 00:34:10,840 He'll settle down here, marry a nice girl... 484 00:34:11,060 --> 00:34:12,656 And have lovely children. 485 00:34:13,651 --> 00:34:15,267 What a dreadful prospect. 486 00:34:15,867 --> 00:34:19,015 What has poor Armand done to be sentenced to matrimony? 487 00:34:19,839 --> 00:34:21,956 You should know better, my dear. 488 00:34:37,297 --> 00:34:39,216 You're unhappy... Why? 489 00:34:40,952 --> 00:34:42,966 Armand, I have the satisfaction of knowing 490 00:34:42,992 --> 00:34:44,356 that the biggest fool in England 491 00:34:44,382 --> 00:34:46,597 has the most complete contempt for his wife. 492 00:34:46,629 --> 00:34:48,775 Percy? How did it happen? 493 00:34:50,633 --> 00:34:51,990 I don't know. 494 00:34:53,338 --> 00:34:55,289 I only know that when I married him 495 00:34:55,315 --> 00:34:56,487 he was a man. 496 00:34:56,857 --> 00:34:58,291 He was my lover. 497 00:34:59,048 --> 00:35:01,193 I was glad to give up everything for him. 498 00:35:03,018 --> 00:35:04,321 And now... 499 00:35:06,449 --> 00:35:08,017 You mustn't leave me, Armand! 500 00:35:08,065 --> 00:35:10,104 I need you... I'm all alone. 501 00:35:10,177 --> 00:35:11,606 I can't stay. 502 00:35:11,607 --> 00:35:13,041 You're going back to France? 503 00:35:13,067 --> 00:35:14,077 But it's not safe! 504 00:35:14,102 --> 00:35:15,750 For me? I'm no aristocrat. 505 00:35:15,776 --> 00:35:17,547 For anyone under the terror. 506 00:35:17,581 --> 00:35:19,838 I shall look after the Blakeney estate in France. 507 00:35:19,904 --> 00:35:22,361 Oh, Percy is so rich! What does it mean to him? 508 00:35:23,427 --> 00:35:25,887 He is not even interested in his English estates. 509 00:35:27,030 --> 00:35:28,549 Since the terror he wouldn't go over to France 510 00:35:28,572 --> 00:35:30,469 for all the treasures in the world. 511 00:35:30,623 --> 00:35:32,651 Why should you risk your life for his money? 512 00:35:32,677 --> 00:35:34,391 Oh, I don't risk my life. 513 00:35:35,314 --> 00:35:36,815 Don't worry, darling. 514 00:35:49,424 --> 00:35:50,422 Percy? 515 00:35:50,455 --> 00:35:51,946 May I ask you something? 516 00:35:52,352 --> 00:35:54,442 What's happened to you and Marguerite? 517 00:35:56,481 --> 00:35:58,016 Marriage, I suppose. 518 00:35:58,102 --> 00:35:59,153 Why? 519 00:35:59,841 --> 00:36:01,924 You loved her once... I know. 520 00:36:03,774 --> 00:36:06,377 Do you remember the first family to go to the guillotine? 521 00:36:06,477 --> 00:36:07,666 The St. Cyrs. 522 00:36:08,728 --> 00:36:11,283 They told me it was Marguerite who denounced them. 523 00:36:11,309 --> 00:36:12,599 It was a lie! 524 00:36:13,974 --> 00:36:15,362 I wish I could believe that. 525 00:36:15,548 --> 00:36:16,874 Did you ask her? 526 00:36:16,907 --> 00:36:18,034 I did. 527 00:36:18,928 --> 00:36:20,175 She flashed back a "yes" 528 00:36:20,201 --> 00:36:22,294 as sharp as the knife of the guillotine. 529 00:36:25,319 --> 00:36:26,869 I watched that execution. 530 00:36:27,689 --> 00:36:28,903 The Marquis... 531 00:36:29,284 --> 00:36:30,442 His wife... 532 00:36:30,532 --> 00:36:31,770 His son. 533 00:36:33,671 --> 00:36:34,907 And it was my wife... 534 00:36:35,842 --> 00:36:37,158 Who put them there. 535 00:36:39,625 --> 00:36:41,735 So that's why you ceased to love her. 536 00:36:42,950 --> 00:36:44,294 What a tragedy. 537 00:36:44,979 --> 00:36:46,249 Ceased? 538 00:36:46,964 --> 00:36:48,777 I shall love her till I die. 539 00:36:49,691 --> 00:36:51,046 That's the tragedy. 540 00:36:54,610 --> 00:36:56,958 And it's to make up what she did to them... 541 00:36:57,107 --> 00:36:58,730 That you risk your own life 542 00:36:58,756 --> 00:37:00,859 week after week to rescue the others? 543 00:37:01,824 --> 00:37:03,457 Don't be so heroic, Armand. 544 00:37:03,672 --> 00:37:06,459 I got a smack in the eye, and I took refuge in sport. 545 00:37:06,605 --> 00:37:08,056 And what a sport! 546 00:37:08,318 --> 00:37:09,472 By gad, 547 00:37:09,490 --> 00:37:12,046 I think I shall give up fox hunting this winter. 548 00:37:21,979 --> 00:37:23,829 Now, what do you think of it? 549 00:37:24,503 --> 00:37:25,781 Monstrous fine, sir! 550 00:37:25,815 --> 00:37:27,179 Vastly becoming. 551 00:37:27,715 --> 00:37:29,914 Now, there's a coat you could wear with comfort. 552 00:37:29,953 --> 00:37:32,278 You know perfectly well I can wear nothing with comfort... 553 00:37:32,305 --> 00:37:33,798 Until Sir Percy says so. 554 00:37:33,863 --> 00:37:35,488 Where is that jackanapes? 555 00:37:35,570 --> 00:37:36,609 Who. sir? 556 00:37:36,643 --> 00:37:37,759 You, sir! 557 00:37:37,826 --> 00:37:38,882 Here, sir! 558 00:37:39,715 --> 00:37:41,729 And now, tell Treadle what... 559 00:37:41,755 --> 00:37:43,369 What's wrong with this coat. 560 00:37:50,068 --> 00:37:51,529 The back is admirable. 561 00:37:52,116 --> 00:37:53,512 The front's fair. 562 00:37:54,250 --> 00:37:56,366 The collar is. uh, possible. 563 00:37:58,140 --> 00:37:59,616 But the sleeve. Treadle. 564 00:38:00,007 --> 00:38:02,375 The cuff, my poor, benighted friend... 565 00:38:02,401 --> 00:38:04,575 That, Sir Percy, is the last words in cuffs! 566 00:38:04,583 --> 00:38:05,961 Oh, gad, I should hope so 567 00:38:05,986 --> 00:38:07,689 for there should never be another like it! 568 00:38:08,633 --> 00:38:10,944 Oh, come now, it's... It's not too bad. 569 00:38:10,970 --> 00:38:12,962 You see, Sir Percy, His Royal Highness approves. 570 00:38:12,988 --> 00:38:15,515 My poor Treadle, His Royal Highness does nothing of the kind. 571 00:38:15,541 --> 00:38:17,199 He says it's "not so bad". 572 00:38:17,276 --> 00:38:19,384 And nothing in the world is "so bad"... 573 00:38:19,394 --> 00:38:21,831 As something which is "not so bad". 574 00:38:21,856 --> 00:38:23,659 - But Sir Percy... - It's a crime, Treadle. 575 00:38:23,685 --> 00:38:24,802 Worse, a blunder. 576 00:38:24,829 --> 00:38:27,480 And quite, quite fatal to my reputation. 577 00:38:27,569 --> 00:38:29,078 Why to your reputation? 578 00:38:29,116 --> 00:38:31,309 Because all the world knows that His Royal Highness 579 00:38:31,335 --> 00:38:32,882 is guided by my taste. 580 00:38:32,892 --> 00:38:35,379 Yes, yes, yes... Percy is an expert on coats. 581 00:38:35,405 --> 00:38:36,565 And britches, sir! 582 00:38:36,591 --> 00:38:38,517 I'm a very wonder with the inexpressibles. 583 00:38:38,543 --> 00:38:39,493 Isn't that so, Treadle? 584 00:38:39,519 --> 00:38:41,335 Well, yes, up to a point. 585 00:38:41,364 --> 00:38:44,134 Zounds, Treadle... Why must you be so cursed jealous? 586 00:38:44,142 --> 00:38:45,887 Look at that puny sleeve... 587 00:38:45,913 --> 00:38:47,873 That miserable dishrag of lace. 588 00:38:47,893 --> 00:38:48,758 Odd's fish! 589 00:38:48,785 --> 00:38:50,276 Looks like the lining hanging down. 590 00:38:50,303 --> 00:38:51,973 It was only intended for a plain cut. 591 00:38:51,999 --> 00:38:54,252 Plain! it's as ugly as a parson's widow. 592 00:38:54,416 --> 00:38:55,685 Open up your sleeves, man. 593 00:38:55,712 --> 00:38:57,170 Let your ruffles take the air. 594 00:38:57,196 --> 00:38:58,901 Let them flow, let them ripple. 595 00:38:59,017 --> 00:39:01,325 So that when His Royal Highness takes snuff... 596 00:39:01,351 --> 00:39:03,445 It'll be a swallows flight. 597 00:39:03,768 --> 00:39:04,916 That's it! 598 00:39:04,987 --> 00:39:06,810 Why, Timmy Percy... 599 00:39:06,836 --> 00:39:09,753 You're brainless, spineless, useless 600 00:39:09,779 --> 00:39:11,430 But you do know clothes. 601 00:39:11,522 --> 00:39:14,115 Odd's fish! That... That’s something, isn't it, sir? 602 00:39:14,442 --> 00:39:15,426 - Treadle! Treadle! 603 00:39:15,452 --> 00:39:16,144 Yes, Your Highness! 604 00:39:16,170 --> 00:39:18,803 Don't forget what Sir Percy says about about the sleeves. 605 00:39:19,233 --> 00:39:21,046 - A swallow's flight! - Yes, Your Highness! 606 00:39:21,072 --> 00:39:22,731 Flight of, uh, a swallow. 607 00:39:23,248 --> 00:39:25,206 Come along, come along, gentlemen. 608 00:39:32,164 --> 00:39:33,641 Oh, by the way, Wilmot... 609 00:39:39,660 --> 00:39:41,291 Chauvelin's arrived in London. 610 00:39:41,784 --> 00:39:43,181 Have him watched. 611 00:39:43,472 --> 00:39:45,250 I'm just off to the fight with the Prince. 612 00:39:45,668 --> 00:39:47,517 - Report to me there. - Very good. 613 00:40:10,706 --> 00:40:12,198 Mendoza's groggy! 614 00:40:12,223 --> 00:40:13,650 He... He's done! 615 00:40:13,675 --> 00:40:15,312 Don't you believe it, sir. He's foxing! 616 00:40:15,337 --> 00:40:16,941 You wait until the 30th round. 617 00:40:16,967 --> 00:40:19,236 I'll wager 100 guineas he won't last two more rounds. 618 00:40:19,251 --> 00:40:20,762 - Done! - Come on, Mendoza! 619 00:40:20,788 --> 00:40:22,254 Come on Jackson! 620 00:40:37,901 --> 00:40:40,092 - You'd better hedge, Percy! - Hedge be damned, I'll double. 621 00:40:40,115 --> 00:40:42,002 - Done! - Percy must be mad! 622 00:40:42,028 --> 00:40:43,336 Mendoza's finished! 623 00:40:49,090 --> 00:40:50,436 Get up, Mendoza! 624 00:40:50,463 --> 00:40:51,603 Where is he? 625 00:40:52,297 --> 00:40:54,894 - Where is he? - He's at you house. 626 00:40:57,115 --> 00:40:58,282 No, I will not! 627 00:40:58,742 --> 00:40:59,984 You tricked me once into giving you information 628 00:41:00,007 --> 00:41:01,569 about the Marquis de St. Cyr. 629 00:41:01,987 --> 00:41:03,264 I shall never forgive myself. 630 00:41:03,491 --> 00:41:05,204 I'm sick of this sentimental twaddle 631 00:41:05,230 --> 00:41:07,254 about the poor persecuted aristocrats. 632 00:41:07,671 --> 00:41:09,024 Have you forgotten what they did 633 00:41:09,050 --> 00:41:11,131 to the defenseless peasantry for centuries? 634 00:41:12,424 --> 00:41:15,002 What this very St. Cyr did to you? 635 00:41:17,267 --> 00:41:18,467 No, I have not. 636 00:41:19,194 --> 00:41:20,575 But I'm no spy. 637 00:41:22,521 --> 00:41:24,712 - That is your last word? - Absolutely! 638 00:41:25,915 --> 00:41:27,145 I wonder.... 639 00:41:27,854 --> 00:41:30,322 Oh, by the way, how's your brother, Armand? 640 00:41:32,018 --> 00:41:33,939 Very well, I hope. 641 00:41:34,213 --> 00:41:35,650 I hope so too. 642 00:41:35,815 --> 00:41:37,664 But yesterday he was arrested... 643 00:41:37,763 --> 00:41:38,834 Arrested? 644 00:41:39,008 --> 00:41:40,262 At Boulogne. 645 00:41:41,044 --> 00:41:42,178 What for? 646 00:41:42,657 --> 00:41:44,253 As a traitor to his country. 647 00:41:44,482 --> 00:41:45,617 Traitor? 648 00:41:50,509 --> 00:41:51,843 You're lying, Chauvelin. 649 00:41:52,957 --> 00:41:54,481 You're trying to trick me again. 650 00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:56,775 I've the proof of his guilt in my pocket. 651 00:41:58,362 --> 00:42:02,044 This scrap of paper will certainly send your brother to the guillotine. 652 00:42:02,422 --> 00:42:04,875 Unless, of course, you care to redeem it. 653 00:42:06,512 --> 00:42:09,448 Bring me the name of the Pimpernel and it is yours. 654 00:42:11,921 --> 00:42:13,540 But even if I wanted to... 655 00:42:14,474 --> 00:42:16,347 - I don't know it! - Find it! 656 00:42:16,381 --> 00:42:18,930 How can I if you can't with an army of spies? 657 00:42:18,956 --> 00:42:21,441 Because you go everywhere and know everyone in his circle. 658 00:42:21,670 --> 00:42:23,106 That much I do know. 659 00:42:23,132 --> 00:42:24,586 And this also... 660 00:42:24,941 --> 00:42:26,236 That he will be among the guests 661 00:42:26,262 --> 00:42:28,023 tomorrow night at the Grenville ball. 662 00:42:28,049 --> 00:42:29,323 So will half the world! 663 00:42:29,349 --> 00:42:30,897 This thing is impossible! 664 00:42:32,952 --> 00:42:35,632 You're a clever woman whose brother's life is at stake... 665 00:42:35,658 --> 00:42:37,141 Nothing is impossible. 666 00:42:38,075 --> 00:42:39,087 Well? 667 00:42:41,608 --> 00:42:42,567 No, Chauvelin... 668 00:42:43,007 --> 00:42:44,019 I won't! 669 00:42:45,183 --> 00:42:46,573 Very well, madam. 670 00:42:51,849 --> 00:42:53,117 Chauvelin! 671 00:43:01,733 --> 00:43:02,883 Madam? 672 00:43:08,919 --> 00:43:10,804 Do you swear to give me that paper? 673 00:43:12,901 --> 00:43:15,631 The moment I catch the Scarlet Pimpernel. 674 00:43:16,358 --> 00:43:18,329 Zounds! That name again? 675 00:43:19,004 --> 00:43:20,853 I've heard nothing else all day. 676 00:43:20,926 --> 00:43:22,949 At the club. the fight, and now here. 677 00:43:23,228 --> 00:43:25,434 I protest, the fellow is a public nuisance. 678 00:43:28,732 --> 00:43:30,207 I beg your pardon, my dear. 679 00:43:30,233 --> 00:43:31,582 Do I intrude? 680 00:43:31,907 --> 00:43:32,891 No, no. 681 00:43:32,917 --> 00:43:34,860 This is an old, uh, acquaintance. 682 00:43:34,886 --> 00:43:36,822 Monsieur Chauvelin, the French Ambassador. 683 00:43:36,848 --> 00:43:38,223 My husband. 684 00:43:38,251 --> 00:43:40,462 Charmed, delighted, enchanted. 685 00:43:42,050 --> 00:43:43,809 Devilish clever race, the French. 686 00:43:43,835 --> 00:43:47,196 How they speak that unspeakable language of theirs defeats me. 687 00:43:47,264 --> 00:43:48,370 You flatter us, Sir Percy. 688 00:43:48,403 --> 00:43:50,809 No, no, you've got the cleverest heads in the world. 689 00:43:50,835 --> 00:43:51,889 The only trouble is... 690 00:43:51,915 --> 00:43:53,470 You all go to pieces around the neck. 691 00:43:53,496 --> 00:43:54,822 Around the neck? 692 00:43:54,848 --> 00:43:56,521 Yes, now look at that thing. 693 00:43:56,565 --> 00:43:58,231 Sink me, what a mess! 694 00:43:58,551 --> 00:44:01,016 Now, if you'd really like to know how to tie a cravat... 695 00:44:01,042 --> 00:44:01,827 I'll tell you. 696 00:44:01,853 --> 00:44:04,098 But it isn't easy, mind, it would take all my brains. 697 00:44:04,099 --> 00:44:04,826 I'm sure it would. 698 00:44:04,852 --> 00:44:06,316 Yes, now look here. 699 00:44:06,343 --> 00:44:09,574 Well, you see, first of all the thing goes twice around the neck. 700 00:44:09,825 --> 00:44:12,912 And then the front folds back to allow the back to come to the front. 701 00:44:13,088 --> 00:44:15,213 Otherwise the front would be all behind 702 00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:16,629 as well as before. 703 00:44:16,655 --> 00:44:18,506 Percy, what are you talking about? 704 00:44:18,532 --> 00:44:20,131 You don't follow me, my dear? 705 00:44:20,157 --> 00:44:21,634 That's exactly what I say. 706 00:44:21,660 --> 00:44:23,094 It takes brains, doesn't it? 707 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,762 - One can see that. - Yes, of course. 708 00:44:28,426 --> 00:44:29,625 Good day, Lady Blakeney. 709 00:44:29,651 --> 00:44:31,008 Oh, no, no, don't go. 710 00:44:31,034 --> 00:44:33,463 You and my wife must have so much to say to each other. 711 00:44:33,479 --> 00:44:34,662 We have. 712 00:44:34,712 --> 00:44:37,752 But then I promised myself a little tête-á-tête with Lady Blakeney 713 00:44:37,778 --> 00:44:39,970 at Lord Grenville's ball tomorrow night. 714 00:44:40,004 --> 00:44:41,216 Good. 715 00:44:41,447 --> 00:44:42,791 Tomorrow night, then. 716 00:44:42,935 --> 00:44:44,046 But before you go... 717 00:44:44,072 --> 00:44:46,516 You must hear my verse about that cursed Pimpernel fellow. 718 00:44:46,543 --> 00:44:47,517 You'll love it! 719 00:44:47,543 --> 00:44:48,526 Listen. 720 00:44:48,603 --> 00:44:49,975 "They seek him here... 721 00:44:50,001 --> 00:44:51,262 "they seek him there... 722 00:44:51,288 --> 00:44:54,199 "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. 723 00:44:54,225 --> 00:44:55,758 "Is he in heaven? 724 00:44:55,784 --> 00:44:57,536 "Is he in hell? 725 00:44:57,562 --> 00:45:00,301 That damned elusive Pimpernel". 726 00:45:00,326 --> 00:45:01,469 - Delightful! - What? 727 00:45:01,495 --> 00:45:03,624 Especially that, uh... that line: 728 00:45:03,649 --> 00:45:05,334 "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere". 729 00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:06,462 Yes, I like that too. 730 00:45:06,488 --> 00:45:07,694 Because, you see 731 00:45:07,718 --> 00:45:09,132 I hear that they do. 732 00:45:09,158 --> 00:45:10,450 And that gives the line 733 00:45:10,476 --> 00:45:12,117 a sort of something... 734 00:45:12,143 --> 00:45:15,024 That sort of gives it, ah... A something, uh... 735 00:45:15,686 --> 00:45:17,234 If I make myself clear. 736 00:45:17,293 --> 00:45:18,636 Clear as crystal. 737 00:45:19,559 --> 00:45:21,252 Good day, my dear Sir Percy. 738 00:45:21,278 --> 00:45:24,508 Bonjour, "misu", as the French say. 739 00:45:26,604 --> 00:45:28,071 Bonjour! 740 00:45:34,138 --> 00:45:36,757 Magnificent fight this afternoon, my dear. 741 00:45:37,762 --> 00:45:40,382 Gad, that fellow Mendoza's got quick ears. 742 00:45:40,408 --> 00:45:42,489 In the 10th round, when Jackson had him down 743 00:45:42,515 --> 00:45:44,284 I shouted, "Get up Mendoza!" 744 00:45:44,331 --> 00:45:45,746 And damn me, he did. 745 00:45:45,772 --> 00:45:47,374 And, sink me, he won. 746 00:45:48,883 --> 00:45:49,921 Do you think... 747 00:45:49,948 --> 00:45:52,562 Andrew Ffoulkes might be the Scarlet Pimpernel? 748 00:45:54,038 --> 00:45:55,274 Andrew? 749 00:45:55,307 --> 00:45:56,324 Never! 750 00:45:56,422 --> 00:45:58,391 He couldn't hit a ball at Eaton! 751 00:45:58,701 --> 00:45:59,844 Why? 752 00:46:00,021 --> 00:46:02,390 What's your interest in the Scarlet Pimpernel? 753 00:46:02,502 --> 00:46:03,746 No more than any other woman's. 754 00:46:03,772 --> 00:46:05,191 We would all like to know who he is. 755 00:46:05,276 --> 00:46:07,291 So would your friend Chauvelin, I'll wager. 756 00:46:07,317 --> 00:46:08,454 What makes you say that? 757 00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,120 Isn't that what he is here for? 758 00:46:10,407 --> 00:46:11,882 Did he tell you? 759 00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,036 - Why should he? - Why not? 760 00:46:14,112 --> 00:46:15,680 Mind you, the man is clever... 761 00:46:15,711 --> 00:46:18,052 But a fellow who can't even tie his own cravat... 762 00:46:18,078 --> 00:46:21,267 Isn't likely to put a noose 'round the Pimpernel's neck is he? 763 00:46:22,530 --> 00:46:23,840 Really, Percy. 764 00:46:23,866 --> 00:46:26,435 Can you never rise above trivialities? 765 00:46:26,461 --> 00:46:30,052 Can't rise above anything with more than three syllables, my dear, I never could. 766 00:46:30,057 --> 00:46:31,239 Nonsense! 767 00:46:31,264 --> 00:46:32,835 You were a man once! 768 00:46:33,791 --> 00:46:35,608 A man a woman could look up to. 769 00:46:36,396 --> 00:46:38,333 Could turn to in trouble. 770 00:46:39,003 --> 00:46:40,431 And now... 771 00:46:41,086 --> 00:46:43,220 You wouldn't know where to begin. 772 00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:56,415 Couldn't you begin by telling me what the trouble is? 773 00:46:57,193 --> 00:46:58,669 What is the use? 774 00:46:58,695 --> 00:47:01,032 We don't even speak the same language. 775 00:47:12,098 --> 00:47:14,820 Mr. Richard Brindslay Sheridan. 776 00:47:16,728 --> 00:47:18,944 The Countess de Tournay. 777 00:47:19,272 --> 00:47:21,334 Mademoiselle de Tournay. 778 00:47:23,576 --> 00:47:25,498 The Vicomte de Tournay. 779 00:47:26,876 --> 00:47:29,511 Lord and Lady Elsworthy. 780 00:47:31,470 --> 00:47:33,994 The Earl and Countess of Garrow. 781 00:47:35,439 --> 00:47:37,098 Well, here's our French friend! 782 00:47:37,124 --> 00:47:39,698 Bonsoir, "misu", as you say. 783 00:47:39,699 --> 00:47:41,105 Good evening, Sir Percy. 784 00:47:42,831 --> 00:47:43,609 Milady. 785 00:47:43,635 --> 00:47:45,298 My dear, look at that cravat. 786 00:47:45,529 --> 00:47:47,528 You're a monstrous quick learner, sir. 787 00:47:47,689 --> 00:47:49,138 Permit me. 788 00:47:50,907 --> 00:47:51,856 There... 789 00:47:51,889 --> 00:47:53,408 Perfect. Perfect! 790 00:47:53,460 --> 00:47:56,207 Another week, and we won't know you from an Englishman. 791 00:47:56,233 --> 00:47:58,519 From an Englishman! That is praise indeed! 792 00:48:00,024 --> 00:48:00,991 Oh, Sir Percy! 793 00:48:01,018 --> 00:48:03,277 What is this poem everybody is talking about? 794 00:48:03,303 --> 00:48:04,358 - Poem? - Yes! 795 00:48:04,384 --> 00:48:06,061 All about the Scarlet Pimpernel. 796 00:48:06,563 --> 00:48:07,447 Do tell us! 797 00:48:07,473 --> 00:48:09,016 Oh, gads, there's no escape. 798 00:48:09,042 --> 00:48:10,216 Forgive me my dear. 799 00:48:10,251 --> 00:48:12,409 Take our friend round and tell him who everybody is... 800 00:48:12,851 --> 00:48:14,772 If anybody is anybody. 801 00:48:17,739 --> 00:48:20,065 - That's exactly like you, Percy! - That's like you. 802 00:48:20,091 --> 00:48:21,956 I only want to know who one person is 803 00:48:21,981 --> 00:48:23,619 and you know the alternative.. 804 00:48:23,650 --> 00:48:25,700 The Pimpernel is under this roof at this moment 805 00:48:25,726 --> 00:48:27,361 among your friends. 806 00:48:27,950 --> 00:48:29,663 Your move, milady. 807 00:48:30,014 --> 00:48:31,448 And good luck. 808 00:48:36,806 --> 00:48:38,068 Marguerite! 809 00:48:40,038 --> 00:48:41,252 Suzanne! 810 00:48:41,517 --> 00:48:42,771 Suzanne. 811 00:48:52,104 --> 00:48:54,322 The thing rhymes, you see, in four places. 812 00:48:54,459 --> 00:48:56,866 And if you can get a rhyme to rhyme... 813 00:48:56,885 --> 00:48:59,576 That, uh, makes it a poem, if you follow me. 814 00:48:59,708 --> 00:49:01,638 Yes, of course, but what is it? 815 00:49:01,929 --> 00:49:03,420 "The Scarlet Pimpernel" 816 00:49:03,424 --> 00:49:05,392 by Sir Percy Blakeney, Baronet. 817 00:49:06,598 --> 00:49:08,369 Really, that's only the name! 818 00:49:08,424 --> 00:49:10,013 Well, go on! 819 00:49:10,268 --> 00:49:11,744 "They seek him here, 820 00:49:11,770 --> 00:49:13,200 "They seek him there. 821 00:49:13,227 --> 00:49:15,718 "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. 822 00:49:15,744 --> 00:49:17,450 "Is he in heaven? 823 00:49:17,476 --> 00:49:18,769 "Is he in... 824 00:49:20,877 --> 00:49:22,694 "That damned elusive... 825 00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:24,204 Pimpernel. 826 00:49:24,516 --> 00:49:26,049 That's marvelous! It rhymes! 827 00:49:26,074 --> 00:49:27,486 Oh yes! It's a poem! 828 00:49:29,377 --> 00:49:31,766 "They seek him here, "They seek him there. 829 00:49:31,796 --> 00:49:34,890 "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. 830 00:49:34,916 --> 00:49:37,620 "Is he in heaven? "Is he in... 831 00:49:38,524 --> 00:49:41,683 "That damned elusive Pimpernel! 832 00:49:41,709 --> 00:49:43,794 - Oh, extraordinary. - Marvelous! 833 00:49:50,865 --> 00:49:51,929 You liked that? 834 00:49:51,957 --> 00:49:53,749 Well, I could tell another one. 835 00:49:53,775 --> 00:49:55,179 Zounds! 836 00:49:55,598 --> 00:49:57,385 That's a monstrous good color! 837 00:50:00,524 --> 00:50:01,568 Hastings! 838 00:50:01,577 --> 00:50:02,812 Who made that coat? 839 00:50:02,838 --> 00:50:03,824 Beagle & Beagle. 840 00:50:03,850 --> 00:50:04,639 Odd's blood! 841 00:50:04,665 --> 00:50:06,854 Sink me if they're not better than our master Treadle. 842 00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:08,894 - Ffoulkes and Dewhurst are free. - Escaped? 843 00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:10,982 No, released. They are coming here immediately. 844 00:50:11,008 --> 00:50:12,920 Of course, that's why they were released. 845 00:50:13,074 --> 00:50:14,876 To lead a trail to the rest of us. 846 00:50:15,142 --> 00:50:17,174 I shall be in the library at midnight. 847 00:50:18,585 --> 00:50:20,826 His Royal Highness... 848 00:50:20,852 --> 00:50:23,058 The Prince of Wales. 849 00:50:32,405 --> 00:50:34,428 Ladies, please. 850 00:50:35,406 --> 00:50:38,168 Ladies, gentlemen, please. 851 00:50:38,780 --> 00:50:40,489 Ah, Grenville! 852 00:50:44,045 --> 00:50:45,729 Good evening, ladies! 853 00:50:45,754 --> 00:50:47,402 Good evening, gentlemen! 854 00:50:47,650 --> 00:50:49,074 Please, please! 855 00:50:51,587 --> 00:50:53,618 Any news from France, Grenville? 856 00:50:53,644 --> 00:50:55,465 - The worst, sir. - The King? 857 00:50:55,498 --> 00:50:56,977 Doomed. 858 00:50:57,738 --> 00:50:59,119 Can't we do anything? 859 00:50:59,305 --> 00:51:01,202 We recalled our ambassador a month ago. 860 00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:03,928 Chauvelin had the impudence to accept my invitation. 861 00:51:05,438 --> 00:51:06,975 Will Your Highness permit? 862 00:51:07,001 --> 00:51:08,091 Monsieur Chauvelin 863 00:51:08,118 --> 00:51:10,615 the unofficial ambassador of the French government. 864 00:51:12,741 --> 00:51:15,963 Monsieur, we will try to forget the government who sent you. 865 00:51:16,338 --> 00:51:18,766 And look upon you as merely our guest. 866 00:51:18,966 --> 00:51:20,863 A private gentleman from France. 867 00:51:21,118 --> 00:51:23,002 As such are you welcome, monsieur. 868 00:51:23,058 --> 00:51:24,087 Well, ladies... 869 00:51:24,113 --> 00:51:26,844 Did you bet on my horse at Newmarket this afternoon? 870 00:51:36,825 --> 00:51:38,451 I particularly love the whole... 871 00:51:38,477 --> 00:51:39,879 But I didn't want to... 872 00:51:41,860 --> 00:51:44,347 Lady Blakeney with a sad face? 873 00:51:44,374 --> 00:51:47,153 Ha-ha, but sadness is for mere mortals, milady. 874 00:51:47,179 --> 00:51:49,092 Never, never for goddesses. 875 00:51:49,322 --> 00:51:51,502 Alas, even a goddess must have moments 876 00:51:51,528 --> 00:51:53,042 when she's a plain woman. 877 00:51:53,068 --> 00:51:54,163 Zounds, madam! 878 00:51:54,189 --> 00:51:57,126 Lady Blakeney could never become a plain woman at any moment. 879 00:51:57,152 --> 00:51:58,884 Ha-ha, that's better! 880 00:51:58,954 --> 00:52:00,562 Now, come and help me through my... 881 00:52:00,588 --> 00:52:02,080 my princely paces. 882 00:52:02,732 --> 00:52:04,994 I crave your permission to present Your Royal Highness 883 00:52:05,137 --> 00:52:07,268 the Countess de Tournay, her daughter. 884 00:52:07,294 --> 00:52:08,786 This is a pleasure, madam. 885 00:52:09,427 --> 00:52:11,443 Charming, charming! 886 00:52:11,469 --> 00:52:14,466 You and Lady Blakeney must become great friends, madam. 887 00:52:14,509 --> 00:52:16,755 Her friends are my friends. 888 00:52:17,170 --> 00:52:19,273 And her enemies, the enemies... 889 00:52:19,357 --> 00:52:20,444 of England. 890 00:52:20,761 --> 00:52:23,752 We poor exiles, madam show our gratitude to England 891 00:52:23,778 --> 00:52:26,311 by our devotion to the wishes of Monseigneur. 892 00:52:27,394 --> 00:52:28,225 Suzanne. 893 00:52:28,251 --> 00:52:29,894 - Suzanne! - Marguerite! 894 00:52:35,377 --> 00:52:37,632 They were schoolfellows in the convent in Paris. 895 00:52:37,658 --> 00:52:39,675 Ah-ha, charming, madam. 896 00:52:39,701 --> 00:52:41,485 Your Royal Highness, 897 00:52:41,511 --> 00:52:44,461 I accepted the Lord Grenville's gracious invitation 898 00:52:44,487 --> 00:52:48,426 solely to implore Your Highness to do something to save my husband. 899 00:52:49,255 --> 00:52:50,565 Madam. 900 00:52:51,123 --> 00:52:53,448 The government does everything in it's power 901 00:52:53,474 --> 00:52:56,942 to save those who are threatened by death in the prisons of the French Republic. 902 00:52:57,380 --> 00:52:59,388 But if a country goes mad 903 00:52:59,418 --> 00:53:01,932 it has the right to commit every horror 904 00:53:01,958 --> 00:53:03,631 within it's own walls. 905 00:53:07,918 --> 00:53:11,023 Hastings slipped a note into sir Andrew Ffoulkes' cuff. 906 00:53:12,263 --> 00:53:13,692 Thank you, sir. 907 00:53:22,328 --> 00:53:23,900 Ah, Lady Blakeney. 908 00:53:24,254 --> 00:53:26,679 Won't you take pity on a lonely compatriot? 909 00:53:30,029 --> 00:53:32,159 Are you asking me to dance with you? 910 00:53:34,030 --> 00:53:35,104 Not with me. 911 00:53:35,144 --> 00:53:36,701 With Sir Andrew Ffoulkes. 912 00:53:36,884 --> 00:53:37,730 Why? 913 00:53:37,757 --> 00:53:39,877 He has a note in his cuff. Get it! 914 00:53:41,825 --> 00:53:43,722 - But listen, Chauvelin... - Get it! 915 00:54:05,022 --> 00:54:07,071 Your Royal Highness... 916 00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:08,858 Your Graces... 917 00:54:08,972 --> 00:54:09,868 My lords... 918 00:54:09,903 --> 00:54:12,085 Ladies and gentlemen... 919 00:54:12,186 --> 00:54:15,818 Pray take your places for the minuet. 920 00:54:49,784 --> 00:54:51,769 Oh, please, it's nothing. 921 00:54:51,795 --> 00:54:52,914 Just the heat. 922 00:54:54,202 --> 00:54:55,494 Sir Andrew. 923 00:54:55,807 --> 00:54:57,634 Would you be kind enough to see me upstairs? 924 00:54:57,660 --> 00:54:58,619 Of course. 925 00:55:11,904 --> 00:55:14,293 This way, Lady Blakeney. You'll be all right in a moment. 926 00:55:25,278 --> 00:55:26,504 Lady Blakeney. 927 00:55:26,588 --> 00:55:28,079 Shall I send for a physician? 928 00:55:28,359 --> 00:55:29,535 No, no! 929 00:55:31,856 --> 00:55:33,546 I'm so sorry... 930 00:55:34,492 --> 00:55:36,255 I'll be all right in a minute. 931 00:55:40,453 --> 00:55:41,956 Would you rather be left alone? 932 00:55:41,982 --> 00:55:42,868 No. 933 00:55:42,894 --> 00:55:44,155 Please don't leave me! 934 00:55:46,725 --> 00:55:48,034 Just for a second. 935 00:55:53,168 --> 00:55:54,645 I'll be all right. 936 00:56:50,766 --> 00:56:52,306 How clever of you. 937 00:56:52,490 --> 00:56:54,815 Almost as good as a burnt feather for faintness. 938 00:56:55,898 --> 00:56:57,167 There... 939 00:56:57,589 --> 00:56:59,289 I feel better already. 940 00:57:00,006 --> 00:57:02,371 Would you be kind enough to bring me my fan? 941 00:57:23,617 --> 00:57:24,849 It was a love letter. 942 00:57:24,903 --> 00:57:26,626 And you sacrificed it for me. 943 00:57:26,692 --> 00:57:28,034 What a shame. 944 00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:31,068 But I'll ask her to write you another, shall I? 945 00:57:32,370 --> 00:57:34,871 Suzanne! Are you feeling better, darling? 946 00:57:36,825 --> 00:57:38,524 I spoiled Sir Andrew's dance. 947 00:57:38,557 --> 00:57:40,922 Would you make it up to him by finishing it for me? 948 00:57:57,982 --> 00:57:58,941 Well? 949 00:57:59,736 --> 00:58:00,966 Did you get it? 950 00:58:01,452 --> 00:58:02,594 He burned it. 951 00:58:03,453 --> 00:58:05,041 But I got a glimpse of what was left. 952 00:58:05,892 --> 00:58:07,019 It began... 953 00:58:07,455 --> 00:58:08,709 Well, go on. 954 00:58:10,147 --> 00:58:11,981 "Start tomorrow myself..." 955 00:58:12,863 --> 00:58:13,902 And ended... 956 00:58:13,928 --> 00:58:16,412 "Will be in library at midnight". 957 01:02:00,376 --> 01:02:02,201 Thank you, Mary. You can go to bed. 958 01:02:53,168 --> 01:02:55,421 See that Sir Andrew Ffoulkes gets this. 959 01:02:57,364 --> 01:02:58,587 My dear! 960 01:02:59,066 --> 01:03:00,169 Percy! 961 01:03:01,806 --> 01:03:03,218 All right, Brinker. 962 01:03:06,877 --> 01:03:08,139 Well, my dear? 963 01:03:10,087 --> 01:03:11,364 It's about Armand. 964 01:03:12,739 --> 01:03:14,375 He's in the most terrible danger. 965 01:03:14,489 --> 01:03:15,980 They've arrested him at Boulogne! 966 01:03:16,944 --> 01:03:18,325 How do you know? 967 01:03:21,021 --> 01:03:22,219 Chauvelin told me. 968 01:03:22,823 --> 01:03:24,061 When? 969 01:03:25,716 --> 01:03:26,971 Yesterday. 970 01:03:28,878 --> 01:03:31,133 Well, why didn't you tell me when I asked you? 971 01:03:31,420 --> 01:03:32,951 I don't know... I... 972 01:03:35,399 --> 01:03:36,843 He threatened me. 973 01:03:37,478 --> 01:03:39,175 Then why are you telling me now? 974 01:03:39,201 --> 01:03:41,530 Because I thought you might do something for Armand! 975 01:03:41,832 --> 01:03:43,736 You have influence at court. 976 01:03:44,605 --> 01:03:47,025 Didn't you ask your friend Chauvelin for help? 977 01:03:48,839 --> 01:03:50,418 He promised me that... 978 01:03:52,088 --> 01:03:53,580 I don't trust him. 979 01:03:54,488 --> 01:03:56,694 He promised you the life of your brother. 980 01:03:58,088 --> 01:04:00,081 What did you give him in exchange? 981 01:04:04,692 --> 01:04:06,389 What has happened to you, Percy? 982 01:04:08,777 --> 01:04:10,563 Do you... hate me? 983 01:04:12,909 --> 01:04:15,099 Why did you denounce the Marquis de St. Cyr? 984 01:04:15,888 --> 01:04:17,086 So, that's it! 985 01:04:17,634 --> 01:04:20,107 Why did you never ask me what the Marquis de St. Cyr did to me! 986 01:04:20,133 --> 01:04:21,642 You didn't even know him. 987 01:04:23,042 --> 01:04:24,001 No. 988 01:04:24,185 --> 01:04:25,662 I didn't even know him. 989 01:04:26,482 --> 01:04:27,441 Well, then. 990 01:04:27,473 --> 01:04:28,791 But I knew his son. 991 01:04:30,571 --> 01:04:33,064 I was only 17 when he asked me to marry him. 992 01:04:33,755 --> 01:04:35,605 His father heard about it and had me arrested... 993 01:04:36,386 --> 01:04:38,124 And sent to St. Lazare. 994 01:04:39,479 --> 01:04:41,486 Do you know what St. Lazare is? 995 01:04:43,420 --> 01:04:45,683 Do you know the sort of women that are sent there? 996 01:04:47,290 --> 01:04:48,355 I would have killed myself. 997 01:04:48,752 --> 01:04:49,767 Only... 998 01:04:49,952 --> 01:04:51,150 Only what? 999 01:04:51,214 --> 01:04:52,690 The Revolution came. 1000 01:04:53,025 --> 01:04:55,136 The ever-glorious 14th of July. 1001 01:04:56,020 --> 01:04:57,330 And I was free. 1002 01:05:00,272 --> 01:05:01,978 Why this tardy explanation? 1003 01:05:02,783 --> 01:05:05,998 I asked you once if you sent the St. Cyrs to the guillotine. You said yes. 1004 01:05:06,756 --> 01:05:08,707 You believed it so easily, didn't you? 1005 01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:11,408 And yet... 1006 01:05:12,106 --> 01:05:13,574 I still ask myself. 1007 01:05:14,547 --> 01:05:16,541 "Am I really guilty of their deaths?" 1008 01:05:17,082 --> 01:05:18,765 If not you, who is? 1009 01:05:19,288 --> 01:05:20,629 He plotted with Austria. 1010 01:05:20,655 --> 01:05:21,942 I told a friend. 1011 01:05:22,442 --> 01:05:24,180 A man whom I thought a friend. 1012 01:05:24,595 --> 01:05:25,921 He denounced him. 1013 01:05:26,805 --> 01:05:28,131 The terror did the rest. 1014 01:05:29,006 --> 01:05:30,395 Who was that friend? 1015 01:05:34,361 --> 01:05:35,893 Was it Chauvelin? 1016 01:05:40,610 --> 01:05:42,602 He promised you your brother's life. 1017 01:05:43,810 --> 01:05:45,683 What price did you pay for it? 1018 01:05:47,321 --> 01:05:49,162 What price did you pay for it? 1019 01:05:50,944 --> 01:05:52,484 I paid a horrible price. 1020 01:05:53,883 --> 01:05:55,059 Well? 1021 01:05:55,641 --> 01:05:57,767 I betrayed the Scarlet Pimpernel. 1022 01:06:00,517 --> 01:06:01,787 How? 1023 01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:04,448 Ffoulkes had a scrap of paper in his cuff. 1024 01:06:04,570 --> 01:06:07,967 I read it and told Chauvelin the Pimpernel would be in the library at midnight. 1025 01:06:08,510 --> 01:06:10,916 And was he in the library at midnight? 1026 01:06:11,003 --> 01:06:12,616 Chauvelin says he wasn't. 1027 01:06:13,046 --> 01:06:14,434 But I think he is lying. 1028 01:06:16,059 --> 01:06:17,316 And through my betrayal 1029 01:06:17,342 --> 01:06:19,722 a noble and generous man might lose his life. 1030 01:06:20,198 --> 01:06:21,690 What am I to do Percy? 1031 01:06:21,716 --> 01:06:23,263 How can I warn him? 1032 01:06:23,297 --> 01:06:24,685 Warn him? 1033 01:06:24,776 --> 01:06:26,085 Against what? 1034 01:06:26,110 --> 01:06:28,904 Against the danger that threatens him if he goes back to France! 1035 01:06:29,010 --> 01:06:30,184 My dear... 1036 01:06:30,210 --> 01:06:32,117 If he is the kind of lunatic I take him to be 1037 01:06:32,118 --> 01:06:33,588 your warning won't stop him. 1038 01:06:33,614 --> 01:06:35,303 But he might be going to his death! 1039 01:06:35,330 --> 01:06:37,495 Well, that's all the fellow lives for. 1040 01:06:38,345 --> 01:06:40,615 Besides, he doesn't know you're in love with him. 1041 01:06:40,641 --> 01:06:42,395 I'm not in love with him. 1042 01:06:42,423 --> 01:06:44,121 I admire his heroism, but... 1043 01:06:44,157 --> 01:06:45,473 I don't love him. 1044 01:06:45,538 --> 01:06:47,539 Oh, but you do, only you don't know it. 1045 01:06:48,112 --> 01:06:50,542 I didn't know it myself until a moment ago. 1046 01:06:50,597 --> 01:06:52,851 Percy, please don't joke about it! 1047 01:06:53,266 --> 01:06:54,512 It's no joke. 1048 01:06:55,363 --> 01:06:56,681 Believe me. 1049 01:06:58,233 --> 01:07:00,995 Dangerous game, falling in love with a phantom, my dear. 1050 01:07:01,999 --> 01:07:04,491 For all you know, he may be a married man. 1051 01:07:04,985 --> 01:07:06,922 Who's deeply in love with his wife. 1052 01:07:08,038 --> 01:07:09,110 Never. 1053 01:07:09,742 --> 01:07:10,973 Why not? 1054 01:07:11,814 --> 01:07:13,669 Would any man who was in love with his wife 1055 01:07:13,695 --> 01:07:15,537 leave her continually to face death? 1056 01:07:17,150 --> 01:07:18,531 Would you? 1057 01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:21,470 Me? 1058 01:07:23,777 --> 01:07:26,284 Zounds! I'm much more romantic than you think. 1059 01:07:26,964 --> 01:07:29,123 In a case like that I wouldn't leave you. 1060 01:07:29,277 --> 01:07:31,198 Not even to go to my tailor. 1061 01:07:32,387 --> 01:07:33,958 The horses are ready, sir. 1062 01:07:34,144 --> 01:07:35,316 Thank you, Brinker. 1063 01:07:35,359 --> 01:07:36,588 Are you going away? 1064 01:07:36,620 --> 01:07:38,367 Oh, yes, didn't I tell you? 1065 01:07:38,387 --> 01:07:40,510 Important business in town. 1066 01:07:40,950 --> 01:07:42,522 Goodbye, my dear. 1067 01:07:43,206 --> 01:07:44,659 Your tailor, I suppose. 1068 01:07:44,690 --> 01:07:47,319 Not only my tailor, but also my bootmaker. 1069 01:07:47,691 --> 01:07:49,292 And incidentally... 1070 01:07:49,381 --> 01:07:51,928 I want to see what my influence is worth at court... 1071 01:07:51,954 --> 01:07:53,731 That little matter of your brother. 1072 01:07:55,053 --> 01:07:56,441 Perhaps I can help. 1073 01:07:58,031 --> 01:07:59,633 Oh, Percy, if you could... 1074 01:07:59,659 --> 01:08:01,459 I'd love you all my life. 1075 01:08:02,651 --> 01:08:03,945 Gad! 1076 01:08:05,379 --> 01:08:07,077 I must remember that, my dear. 1077 01:08:08,764 --> 01:08:10,060 Goodbye. 1078 01:08:36,957 --> 01:08:38,005 What is it Brinker? 1079 01:08:38,077 --> 01:08:40,371 It's 6 o'clock, milady. 1080 01:08:41,512 --> 01:08:43,417 I suppose you want me to leave this room. 1081 01:08:44,730 --> 01:08:47,126 I've never been here quite alone, have I? 1082 01:08:47,152 --> 01:08:48,660 No, milady. 1083 01:08:48,773 --> 01:08:50,901 All right, Brinker, thank you. 1084 01:09:34,961 --> 01:09:36,373 Percy! 1085 01:09:44,008 --> 01:09:45,391 Percy! 1086 01:09:50,627 --> 01:09:52,452 - Brinker! Brinker! - Milady. 1087 01:09:52,607 --> 01:09:55,118 A letter, to be delivered into your Lady's good hands. 1088 01:09:55,192 --> 01:09:56,809 - From Sir Percy? - No, madam. 1089 01:09:56,835 --> 01:09:59,165 From his excellency, the French Ambassador. 1090 01:10:27,403 --> 01:10:28,672 Where's Monsieur Chauvelin? 1091 01:10:28,698 --> 01:10:30,933 He left this morning for France, madam. 1092 01:10:31,969 --> 01:10:33,493 All right, thank you. 1093 01:10:44,569 --> 01:10:45,711 Brinker! 1094 01:10:46,683 --> 01:10:47,731 The carriage. 1095 01:10:47,953 --> 01:10:49,351 Very good, milady. 1096 01:11:20,123 --> 01:11:21,576 Is Sir Andrew Ffoulkes in? 1097 01:11:21,602 --> 01:11:22,711 Yes, milady. 1098 01:11:28,127 --> 01:11:29,929 I'll call Sir Andrew, milady. 1099 01:11:38,277 --> 01:11:39,560 Lady Blakeney, what's happened? 1100 01:11:39,586 --> 01:11:41,540 Sir Andrew, there's no time to waste in talking. 1101 01:11:41,566 --> 01:11:42,635 Just listen to me. 1102 01:11:42,650 --> 01:11:44,768 Your leader and friend, the Scarlet Pimpernel 1103 01:11:44,794 --> 01:11:46,406 - My husband.. - How do you know that, milady? 1104 01:11:46,429 --> 01:11:47,822 Do not ask any questions now. 1105 01:11:47,823 --> 01:11:49,221 He is in deadly peril. 1106 01:11:49,247 --> 01:11:51,542 Chauvelin knows that Percy Blakeney and the Scarlet Pimpernel 1107 01:11:51,565 --> 01:11:52,741 are one and the same. 1108 01:11:52,766 --> 01:11:54,567 How did Chauvelin come to know? 1109 01:11:57,165 --> 01:11:58,523 Through me. 1110 01:11:59,902 --> 01:12:01,614 Do you mean to say that you betrayed him? 1111 01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:03,204 Yes, yes, I betrayed him, never mind how 1112 01:12:03,229 --> 01:12:04,395 just tell me this... 1113 01:12:04,421 --> 01:12:06,004 Has Percy left for Boulogne? 1114 01:12:06,030 --> 01:12:06,989 Yes. 1115 01:12:07,478 --> 01:12:09,532 - To save my brother? - And de Tournay. 1116 01:12:09,569 --> 01:12:11,758 What is their meeting place in Boulogne? 1117 01:12:12,667 --> 01:12:13,865 Why? 1118 01:12:14,129 --> 01:12:16,593 - Do you want to... - Oh, look at me, man! 1119 01:12:16,618 --> 01:12:19,262 Do I look like a woman who wants to send her husband to his death? 1120 01:12:19,287 --> 01:12:21,681 I want to find Percy, to warn him, to save him 1121 01:12:21,707 --> 01:12:22,819 or to die with him. 1122 01:12:26,366 --> 01:12:27,673 I'll go with you. 1123 01:12:31,548 --> 01:12:33,078 Can you bring your friends? 1124 01:12:33,945 --> 01:12:35,254 Ten of them. 1125 01:12:35,551 --> 01:12:37,241 The rest are in France. 1126 01:12:37,847 --> 01:12:39,925 Percy has forbidden us to go over. 1127 01:12:40,381 --> 01:12:42,634 It will be the first time we've ever disobeyed him. 1128 01:12:46,462 --> 01:12:49,334 I'll save Percy even if I have to kill Chauvelin. 1129 01:12:50,232 --> 01:12:51,916 And if he goes to the guillotine... 1130 01:12:52,491 --> 01:12:53,849 I'll go after him. 1131 01:12:59,435 --> 01:13:01,365 There you are citizens! 1132 01:13:01,391 --> 01:13:04,193 Boulogne has a guillotine of it's own now. 1133 01:13:04,231 --> 01:13:05,536 Same as Paris! 1134 01:13:05,562 --> 01:13:06,793 That's nothing! 1135 01:13:06,819 --> 01:13:09,055 Half the towns in France have got them. 1136 01:13:10,603 --> 01:13:12,309 Let her go, Francois! 1137 01:13:16,066 --> 01:13:17,416 Good, eh? 1138 01:13:18,935 --> 01:13:20,348 So much for the bait. 1139 01:13:21,010 --> 01:13:22,296 Now for the trap. 1140 01:13:22,598 --> 01:13:24,509 We can't afford to make any mistakes this time. 1141 01:13:24,523 --> 01:13:27,402 Remember, it's either the Pimpernel or ourselves for the guillotine. 1142 01:13:27,427 --> 01:13:29,535 - Robespierre knows he is here. - Yes. 1143 01:13:29,684 --> 01:13:32,142 The net must be spread with more than cunning. 1144 01:13:32,143 --> 01:13:33,359 Blakeney's no fool. 1145 01:13:33,385 --> 01:13:35,724 Besides, he's a master of makeup and disguise. 1146 01:13:35,750 --> 01:13:37,561 He may turn up as an old woman 1147 01:13:37,593 --> 01:13:40,621 a peddler with a pack, a peasant with a beard, anything! 1148 01:13:40,665 --> 01:13:43,506 They've got the Scarlet Pimpernel! 1149 01:13:45,292 --> 01:13:46,269 Quiet! 1150 01:13:46,302 --> 01:13:48,119 Quiet everybody! Quiet! 1151 01:13:51,255 --> 01:13:52,993 Listen, my friend 1152 01:13:53,019 --> 01:13:55,241 The next time you want to put on a false beard 1153 01:13:55,242 --> 01:13:56,277 Choose a good one 1154 01:13:56,304 --> 01:13:59,272 not a bird's nest that wouldn't deceive a child! 1155 01:14:01,511 --> 01:14:02,701 Clumsy idiot! 1156 01:14:02,740 --> 01:14:04,177 Let go, you! 1157 01:14:04,203 --> 01:14:07,560 I'll teach him to pull the best beard in Boulogne! 1158 01:14:12,101 --> 01:14:14,380 I've never been so insulted in my life! 1159 01:14:14,428 --> 01:14:16,190 You disgusting, gibbering monkeys! 1160 01:14:16,216 --> 01:14:17,826 You'll hear more of this! 1161 01:14:18,012 --> 01:14:20,941 An honest woman I am, one of the few in our street! 1162 01:14:21,277 --> 01:14:22,974 Stripped naked by soldiers 1163 01:14:22,989 --> 01:14:25,178 and the searched to see if I was a man! 1164 01:14:40,037 --> 01:14:41,466 Listen, Captain. 1165 01:14:42,537 --> 01:14:44,617 If I were 20 years younger 1166 01:14:44,643 --> 01:14:46,352 that's were I should be. 1167 01:14:46,378 --> 01:14:48,330 Bravo uncle! That's the spirit! 1168 01:14:49,171 --> 01:14:51,068 Where are you boys serving now? 1169 01:14:51,305 --> 01:14:52,725 Oh, we're on leave. 1170 01:14:53,051 --> 01:14:56,050 Stealing away the hearts of the girls of Boulogne? 1171 01:14:56,331 --> 01:14:58,165 No sir, I'm in love. 1172 01:14:58,365 --> 01:14:59,793 Ah, you rascal. 1173 01:14:59,967 --> 01:15:01,751 It's the wife of another man? 1174 01:15:01,826 --> 01:15:03,818 No, it's my own. 1175 01:15:05,166 --> 01:15:06,645 Splendid! 1176 01:15:06,671 --> 01:15:09,091 Captain, I’ll tell you a secret. 1177 01:15:11,034 --> 01:15:14,272 You and I are the only men in France 1178 01:15:14,305 --> 01:15:15,739 who are in love with our wives. 1179 01:15:15,765 --> 01:15:17,518 Hooray! Let's drink to it! 1180 01:15:18,350 --> 01:15:19,755 Well, here's to it! 1181 01:15:21,332 --> 01:15:22,665 Here's to it! 1182 01:15:25,709 --> 01:15:27,677 But it'll be hard for you to leave her 1183 01:15:27,703 --> 01:15:29,089 for this war with England. 1184 01:15:29,116 --> 01:15:30,344 You think that's coming, do you? 1185 01:15:30,370 --> 01:15:31,227 Surely! 1186 01:15:31,252 --> 01:15:35,190 We shall have to teach perfidious Albion a lesson! 1187 01:15:35,216 --> 01:15:37,465 Well. it won't take us long to get across the channel. 1188 01:15:37,523 --> 01:15:38,654 Will it, boys? 1189 01:15:38,719 --> 01:15:39,751 No, no! 1190 01:15:39,777 --> 01:15:43,221 Well, gentlemen, good luck! And... 1191 01:15:43,247 --> 01:15:44,452 Good night. 1192 01:15:44,518 --> 01:15:46,377 - Good night. - Good night. 1193 01:15:50,041 --> 01:15:52,280 De Tournay was brought here from Paris yesterday 1194 01:15:52,315 --> 01:15:53,464 The same prison as Armand. 1195 01:15:53,482 --> 01:15:54,570 I thought so. 1196 01:15:54,596 --> 01:15:56,387 Chauvelin's using them as bait. 1197 01:15:59,868 --> 01:16:01,440 Search every incoming ship. 1198 01:16:03,087 --> 01:16:04,696 Even the smallest fishing boat. 1199 01:16:04,732 --> 01:16:05,712 And you... 1200 01:16:06,455 --> 01:16:08,104 De Tournay and St. Just have escaped! 1201 01:16:08,130 --> 01:16:09,684 Escaped! How? 1202 01:16:09,884 --> 01:16:10,993 God knows. 1203 01:16:11,019 --> 01:16:12,437 The Pimpernel knows! 1204 01:16:12,571 --> 01:16:14,118 Someone will pay for this! 1205 01:16:14,486 --> 01:16:15,627 Where are the jailers? 1206 01:16:15,653 --> 01:16:16,777 Missing! 1207 01:16:17,685 --> 01:16:18,582 Citizen Chauvelin! 1208 01:16:18,615 --> 01:16:20,174 How dare you burst in? Who are you? 1209 01:16:20,199 --> 01:16:21,058 Jailer from the prison! 1210 01:16:21,084 --> 01:16:22,843 - So you're the one... - No fault of mine! 1211 01:16:23,347 --> 01:16:24,982 The head jailer would have killed me 1212 01:16:25,008 --> 01:16:27,032 if I hadn't taken the money to free those accursed aristocrats! 1213 01:16:27,055 --> 01:16:27,919 What? 1214 01:16:27,945 --> 01:16:29,619 The Pimpernel is taking them to England. 1215 01:16:29,654 --> 01:16:31,454 Promised us all jobs there! 1216 01:16:31,523 --> 01:16:33,852 But I'm a good patriot, Citizen Chauvelin. 1217 01:16:34,084 --> 01:16:35,831 I'm not losing my head... 1218 01:16:36,264 --> 01:16:38,987 because I got some information that will save yours. 1219 01:16:40,164 --> 01:16:41,586 What is it worth? 1220 01:16:41,736 --> 01:16:43,125 What do you know? 1221 01:16:43,367 --> 01:16:46,255 Where you can find the Scarlet Pimpernel. 1222 01:16:46,856 --> 01:16:48,006 Out with it! 1223 01:16:48,169 --> 01:16:49,279 Where? 1224 01:16:50,780 --> 01:16:54,613 He told us to meet him at 10 o'clock at the Lion d'Or. 1225 01:16:55,847 --> 01:16:57,124 Take him away. 1226 01:17:01,650 --> 01:17:04,039 10 o'clock at the Lion d'Or.♪♪ 1227 01:17:17,957 --> 01:17:20,132 Let fly foresheet! 1228 01:17:20,158 --> 01:17:21,467 Let fly foresheet! 1229 01:17:21,906 --> 01:17:23,500 There's the Lion d'Or. 1230 01:17:25,368 --> 01:17:27,460 Tell the men to get ready to row me ashore. 1231 01:17:27,486 --> 01:17:29,190 We must wait for the signal. 1232 01:17:29,222 --> 01:17:30,921 Brogard waves the lantern 1233 01:17:30,947 --> 01:17:32,255 across the window for safe 1234 01:17:32,281 --> 01:17:33,932 up and down for danger. 1235 01:17:34,354 --> 01:17:35,331 Look! 1236 01:17:35,595 --> 01:17:36,913 There's the signal. 1237 01:17:40,745 --> 01:17:41,809 Safe! 1238 01:17:43,795 --> 01:17:45,248 You've all the roads watched? 1239 01:17:45,662 --> 01:17:47,932 Every corner... and the beach. 1240 01:17:48,113 --> 01:17:50,049 And a troop of dragoons to surround the place? 1241 01:17:50,242 --> 01:17:51,742 Waiting outside. 1242 01:17:51,836 --> 01:17:52,906 Come on then... 1243 01:17:52,944 --> 01:17:54,299 The Lion d'Or. 1244 01:18:10,536 --> 01:18:11,550 Good evening. 1245 01:18:11,576 --> 01:18:12,802 What do you want here? 1246 01:18:12,828 --> 01:18:14,891 This is no place for one of your sort. 1247 01:18:16,044 --> 01:18:18,661 I'm the sort that pays well, Citizen Brogard. 1248 01:18:19,566 --> 01:18:20,790 For what? 1249 01:18:21,894 --> 01:18:23,578 For a seat by the fire. 1250 01:18:44,197 --> 01:18:46,126 I'll wait here for a friend of mine... 1251 01:18:46,991 --> 01:18:48,044 And yours. 1252 01:18:48,061 --> 01:18:50,265 What should I know of your friends? 1253 01:18:50,291 --> 01:18:52,728 You signaled him just now. You must be expecting him. 1254 01:18:52,951 --> 01:18:54,030 What time? 1255 01:18:56,694 --> 01:18:57,924 What time? 1256 01:18:59,713 --> 01:19:01,031 10 o'clock. 1257 01:19:10,855 --> 01:19:12,189 Where can I hide? 1258 01:19:13,106 --> 01:19:14,805 Quick, to the attic! 1259 01:19:43,118 --> 01:19:44,478 Citizen Brogard? 1260 01:19:44,504 --> 01:19:45,441 Yes? 1261 01:19:45,467 --> 01:19:46,771 Under arrest. 1262 01:19:54,438 --> 01:19:55,493 What for? 1263 01:19:55,520 --> 01:19:56,806 Betraying the Republic... 1264 01:19:57,030 --> 01:19:58,658 Helping the enemies of France... 1265 01:19:58,928 --> 01:20:01,190 Harboring a gang of dangerous criminals... 1266 01:20:01,400 --> 01:20:03,319 Smuggling aristocrats out of the country. 1267 01:20:03,344 --> 01:20:04,557 That's a lie! 1268 01:20:04,583 --> 01:20:05,867 You've got one chance. 1269 01:20:05,893 --> 01:20:08,932 Take it, or I'll hang you now from your own sign. 1270 01:20:09,603 --> 01:20:12,992 The leader of your gang is coming here tonight, isn't he? 1271 01:20:13,985 --> 01:20:15,209 Isn't he? 1272 01:20:16,217 --> 01:20:17,978 - Yes. - What time? 1273 01:20:19,492 --> 01:20:22,350 He ordered his boat to be off the point at 10 o'clock. 1274 01:20:22,375 --> 01:20:24,729 Ah, but he'll call here for his passengers, won't he? 1275 01:20:24,755 --> 01:20:25,721 He might! 1276 01:20:25,747 --> 01:20:26,706 Might? 1277 01:20:27,149 --> 01:20:29,855 You'll look pretty swinging in the wind. 1278 01:20:30,923 --> 01:20:32,272 How does he know it's safe? 1279 01:20:33,050 --> 01:20:34,566 What is the signal? 1280 01:20:35,734 --> 01:20:37,607 A lantern in the attic window. 1281 01:20:38,213 --> 01:20:40,205 Waved up and down for danger... 1282 01:20:40,810 --> 01:20:42,985 across the window when all is clear. 1283 01:20:45,394 --> 01:20:47,037 Come on. sergeant. 1284 01:21:05,272 --> 01:21:07,732 That is the wrong signal, Lady Blakeney. 1285 01:21:09,471 --> 01:21:11,630 That will keep Sir Percy away! 1286 01:21:18,387 --> 01:21:19,744 This is the right one. 1287 01:21:20,009 --> 01:21:21,691 This will bring him here. 1288 01:21:22,520 --> 01:21:24,457 I can see you are longing to see him 1289 01:21:24,483 --> 01:21:26,022 As I am myself. 1290 01:21:28,313 --> 01:21:30,550 What a great actor Sir Percy is. 1291 01:21:30,823 --> 01:21:32,451 A thousand ways to cheat 1292 01:21:32,477 --> 01:21:35,258 the poor, stupid officials of the Republic. 1293 01:21:35,548 --> 01:21:38,477 Look, costumes, wigs, paint. 1294 01:21:39,450 --> 01:21:40,981 What will he be next? 1295 01:21:41,404 --> 01:21:44,862 In what disguise will he arrive when the clock strikes 10? 1296 01:21:45,441 --> 01:21:48,036 I must arrange a reassuring atmosphere for him. 1297 01:21:50,016 --> 01:21:51,365 An old woman? 1298 01:21:51,422 --> 01:21:52,826 No, he has overdone that. 1299 01:21:54,345 --> 01:21:55,805 A priest... 1300 01:21:57,007 --> 01:21:58,562 What could be more harmless? 1301 01:21:58,926 --> 01:22:01,778 And so useful when it comes to the last offices. 1302 01:22:02,843 --> 01:22:04,104 Sergeant... 1303 01:22:04,782 --> 01:22:07,261 You shall have the privilege of watching over the Republic's 1304 01:22:07,287 --> 01:22:09,946 most charming prisoner for the rest of the evening. 1305 01:22:11,765 --> 01:22:12,821 Milady. 1306 01:22:16,630 --> 01:22:18,056 - Duroc - Citizen? 1307 01:22:18,082 --> 01:22:19,057 Everything ready? 1308 01:22:19,083 --> 01:22:21,393 The dragoons should be here at any moment. 1309 01:22:21,419 --> 01:22:23,612 Arrange for a firing squad as soon as they arrive. 1310 01:22:23,638 --> 01:22:25,882 Are you so certain you'll get him? 1311 01:22:25,908 --> 01:22:26,876 Quite. 1312 01:22:27,291 --> 01:22:29,943 Thanks to a charming friend I found in there. 1313 01:22:38,001 --> 01:22:39,787 - What time is it? - Quarter to 10. 1314 01:22:39,814 --> 01:22:41,932 Remember, he has to think his way is clear. 1315 01:22:41,958 --> 01:22:43,941 He must not suspect anything until he's in the trap. 1316 01:23:34,975 --> 01:23:36,238 Good evening, Monsieur Chauvelin. 1317 01:23:36,261 --> 01:23:38,072 How nice of you to wait up for me. 1318 01:23:39,635 --> 01:23:40,700 Well... 1319 01:23:40,726 --> 01:23:43,162 I had no idea you were in holy order. 1320 01:23:43,785 --> 01:23:45,587 This is only an innocent masquerade 1321 01:23:45,613 --> 01:23:47,262 like so many of your own, Sir Percy. 1322 01:23:47,288 --> 01:23:49,128 Ah, but mine were successful. 1323 01:23:49,154 --> 01:23:51,305 Mine may prove successful yet. 1324 01:23:51,886 --> 01:23:53,702 You walked in here quite freely 1325 01:23:53,840 --> 01:23:55,435 but you won't walk out a free man. 1326 01:23:56,178 --> 01:23:58,153 A prophet now, Monsieur Chauvelin. 1327 01:23:58,180 --> 01:24:00,545 The time for laughing is past, Sir Percy. 1328 01:24:01,025 --> 01:24:02,756 I've sought for a year. 1329 01:24:02,951 --> 01:24:04,482 Your energy, your ingenuity 1330 01:24:04,508 --> 01:24:06,870 your audacity have been quite admirable. 1331 01:24:07,390 --> 01:24:08,739 But now... 1332 01:24:08,865 --> 01:24:10,055 The game is up! 1333 01:24:10,375 --> 01:24:12,797 Because all the trumps are in your hand, eh? 1334 01:24:13,032 --> 01:24:14,190 Precisely. 1335 01:24:14,409 --> 01:24:16,617 This house is surrounded by my soldiers. 1336 01:24:16,643 --> 01:24:17,929 I've only to raise my voice 1337 01:24:17,955 --> 01:24:20,209 Yes, yes, I see your point. 1338 01:24:20,470 --> 01:24:22,025 I see your point. 1339 01:24:22,841 --> 01:24:24,270 But suppose... 1340 01:24:24,407 --> 01:24:26,081 Suppose I could reach a door? 1341 01:24:27,521 --> 01:24:28,831 The night is black. 1342 01:24:29,452 --> 01:24:30,683 The sea is mine. 1343 01:24:31,080 --> 01:24:32,716 I make a dash! 1344 01:24:33,957 --> 01:24:35,393 I don't make a dash. 1345 01:24:36,810 --> 01:24:38,095 I don't need to. 1346 01:24:39,099 --> 01:24:40,987 Because one of my friends might shoot you... 1347 01:24:42,182 --> 01:24:43,865 From behind, hidden in that clock! 1348 01:24:46,514 --> 01:24:49,458 Oh, come now... No one really hides in a clock. 1349 01:24:50,311 --> 01:24:51,485 Besides... 1350 01:24:52,448 --> 01:24:54,083 I still have... 1351 01:24:54,482 --> 01:24:57,307 One more avenue of escape... 1352 01:24:57,835 --> 01:24:59,129 Open to me. 1353 01:24:59,720 --> 01:25:00,943 Don't move! 1354 01:25:01,711 --> 01:25:02,601 Gunpowder! 1355 01:25:02,627 --> 01:25:04,032 If I drop this in here... 1356 01:25:04,058 --> 01:25:05,598 I fly straight to heaven. 1357 01:25:05,812 --> 01:25:07,580 And you know where you fly to. 1358 01:25:17,642 --> 01:25:19,707 Don't be alarmed Monsieur Chauvelin. 1359 01:25:20,244 --> 01:25:21,934 It's not gunpowder. 1360 01:25:27,781 --> 01:25:29,123 Thank you Wilmot. 1361 01:25:29,148 --> 01:25:30,917 You just arrived in time. 1362 01:25:31,357 --> 01:25:34,017 I've had five delightful minutes with Monsieur Chauvelin. 1363 01:25:34,164 --> 01:25:37,204 I trust there was time enough to get Armand and de Tournay into safety. 1364 01:25:37,237 --> 01:25:38,715 Yes, they're safe. 1365 01:25:38,795 --> 01:25:39,802 Good. 1366 01:25:40,249 --> 01:25:41,654 Now we need five minutes. 1367 01:25:41,973 --> 01:25:43,679 Then I shan't trouble you anymore. 1368 01:25:43,883 --> 01:25:44,899 For the moment. 1369 01:25:44,925 --> 01:25:46,646 We must have the password, Percy. 1370 01:25:46,672 --> 01:25:47,919 The password. 1371 01:25:48,217 --> 01:25:49,884 Do we have to use force? 1372 01:25:51,378 --> 01:25:52,894 Not at all, Sir Percy. 1373 01:25:53,234 --> 01:25:55,352 The password is, "The Channel is Free". 1374 01:25:55,471 --> 01:25:56,448 Splendid! 1375 01:25:56,473 --> 01:25:57,390 Wilmot... 1376 01:25:57,416 --> 01:25:58,949 You get them onto the ship. 1377 01:25:59,174 --> 01:26:01,501 I'll take care of our friend and join you in a minute. 1378 01:26:05,341 --> 01:26:07,078 That was quite sensible of you... 1379 01:26:07,259 --> 01:26:08,369 Monsieur Chauvelin. 1380 01:26:08,395 --> 01:26:09,803 Not at all, Sir Percy. 1381 01:26:09,829 --> 01:26:10,836 You may go... 1382 01:26:10,862 --> 01:26:13,352 Because I know you'll come back of your own free will. 1383 01:26:14,005 --> 01:26:16,505 You overestimate the charm of your society. 1384 01:26:16,688 --> 01:26:19,877 I told you once, the time for jesting was over. 1385 01:26:20,980 --> 01:26:23,155 I have all the trumps in my hand. 1386 01:26:23,499 --> 01:26:26,237 In that room upstairs, there's a woman under arrest 1387 01:26:26,419 --> 01:26:29,689 who has forfeited her life by aiding the enemies of the Republic. 1388 01:26:31,451 --> 01:26:32,379 What woman? 1389 01:26:32,406 --> 01:26:33,864 Lady Blakeney. 1390 01:26:39,698 --> 01:26:41,571 Is the game up, Sir Percy? 1391 01:26:42,251 --> 01:26:44,355 Is this the last adventure? 1392 01:26:48,427 --> 01:26:49,840 I give up, Chauvelin. 1393 01:26:53,034 --> 01:26:54,336 What next? 1394 01:26:54,488 --> 01:26:56,861 There is a firing squad outside. 1395 01:26:58,754 --> 01:26:59,969 And my wife? 1396 01:27:00,106 --> 01:27:02,121 The Revolutionary Tribunal. 1397 01:27:02,427 --> 01:27:03,855 That means death! 1398 01:27:04,064 --> 01:27:06,945 It would have meant my death if I had not caught you! 1399 01:27:10,058 --> 01:27:11,725 Don't be alarmed, Sir Percy. 1400 01:27:12,847 --> 01:27:14,625 I don't want your wife's life. 1401 01:27:14,865 --> 01:27:16,960 She's free the moment you die. 1402 01:27:18,909 --> 01:27:20,409 I offer you a pact. 1403 01:27:24,532 --> 01:27:26,461 If you promise to say nothing to her... 1404 01:27:27,100 --> 01:27:29,201 If you'll send her on to my ship immediately... 1405 01:27:30,216 --> 01:27:32,334 I'll walk up in front of your firing squad. 1406 01:27:37,411 --> 01:27:38,657 I accept. 1407 01:27:39,794 --> 01:27:41,010 Sergeant! 1408 01:27:42,484 --> 01:27:43,967 Bring milady down. 1409 01:27:48,121 --> 01:27:49,344 Percy! 1410 01:27:56,366 --> 01:27:58,271 I wanted to give my life to save you. 1411 01:27:58,297 --> 01:28:00,524 - Forgive me, Percy. - My dear, it's nothing! 1412 01:28:00,525 --> 01:28:02,012 I'm in no danger. 1413 01:28:08,651 --> 01:28:09,754 Percy. 1414 01:28:10,551 --> 01:28:11,846 I want to... 1415 01:28:12,563 --> 01:28:13,976 I want to die with you! 1416 01:28:16,303 --> 01:28:17,739 Don't move, Chauvelin. 1417 01:28:18,811 --> 01:28:21,016 Our parting would be too cruel, even for you. 1418 01:28:22,052 --> 01:28:24,012 Just take her out while she's still unconscious. 1419 01:28:24,651 --> 01:28:26,532 My boat should be at the point by now. 1420 01:28:28,107 --> 01:28:29,505 Good bye, my sweet. 1421 01:28:30,895 --> 01:28:32,062 It's good to know that... 1422 01:28:32,770 --> 01:28:34,112 That you loved me... 1423 01:28:34,368 --> 01:28:35,668 A little. 1424 01:28:50,655 --> 01:28:51,750 Duroc! 1425 01:28:52,101 --> 01:28:54,642 Send this lady to the English ship around the point. 1426 01:28:54,669 --> 01:28:56,986 If anybody attempts to land, shoot! 1427 01:28:57,259 --> 01:28:58,371 Yes, Citizen. 1428 01:28:58,604 --> 01:29:00,080 You two go with him. 1429 01:29:11,936 --> 01:29:13,976 Do you like poetry, Monsieur Chauvelin? 1430 01:29:14,215 --> 01:29:16,283 "That damned elusive Pimpernel". 1431 01:29:16,309 --> 01:29:19,985 No, no... I mean, uh, poetry. 1432 01:29:22,996 --> 01:29:25,464 "This other Eden, demiparadise" 1433 01:29:26,263 --> 01:29:28,494 "This fortress built by nature for herself" 1434 01:29:28,520 --> 01:29:31,259 "Against infection and the hand of war" 1435 01:29:33,669 --> 01:29:35,701 "This happy breed of men" 1436 01:29:35,767 --> 01:29:37,291 "This little world" 1437 01:29:38,882 --> 01:29:42,588 "This precious stone, set in the silver sea" 1438 01:29:44,067 --> 01:29:45,814 "This blessed plot" 1439 01:29:46,214 --> 01:29:47,405 "This earth" 1440 01:29:47,587 --> 01:29:49,024 "This realm" 1441 01:29:50,637 --> 01:29:52,089 "This England" 1442 01:29:54,476 --> 01:29:56,285 Oh, damn me, I forget the rest. 1443 01:29:57,204 --> 01:29:59,642 Firing party, halt! 1444 01:29:59,716 --> 01:30:01,303 Left turn! 1445 01:30:01,692 --> 01:30:03,406 Ground muskets! 1446 01:30:04,458 --> 01:30:05,784 Duroc! 1447 01:30:13,491 --> 01:30:16,555 Zounds, now it appears I shan't have time to remember. 1448 01:30:39,010 --> 01:30:40,494 Shoulder muskets! 1449 01:30:41,616 --> 01:30:42,798 Left turn! 1450 01:30:43,451 --> 01:30:44,649 Quick march! 1451 01:30:53,032 --> 01:30:54,397 Ready! 1452 01:30:58,531 --> 01:30:59,490 Present. 1453 01:30:59,574 --> 01:31:00,725 Present! 1454 01:31:02,717 --> 01:31:03,676 Fire. 1455 01:31:03,728 --> 01:31:05,274 Fire! 1456 01:31:15,151 --> 01:31:16,364 Finished? 1457 01:31:16,613 --> 01:31:19,685 I'm so sorry, Monsieur Chauvelin, I had to come back for my hat. 1458 01:31:19,710 --> 01:31:21,878 It's such a cursed good hat, you know. 1459 01:31:25,487 --> 01:31:27,408 Now, now, don't look at me like that! 1460 01:31:27,960 --> 01:31:30,173 Sink me, if you don't think I'm my own ghost. 1461 01:31:30,764 --> 01:31:31,963 Duroc! 1462 01:31:31,989 --> 01:31:33,187 Captain Duroc? 1463 01:31:33,897 --> 01:31:35,429 I'm afraid it will be an hour or so 1464 01:31:35,455 --> 01:31:38,512 before poor Captain Duroc will be able to resume his duty. 1465 01:31:40,414 --> 01:31:42,994 I regret that I struck him rather violently. 1466 01:31:43,674 --> 01:31:44,864 Seize him! 1467 01:31:44,891 --> 01:31:48,104 Always so impulsive, my dear Monsieur Chauvelin. 1468 01:31:50,566 --> 01:31:51,934 This, ah... 1469 01:31:51,960 --> 01:31:53,772 is my firing squad. 1470 01:31:53,798 --> 01:31:56,046 Allow me to present Ffoulkes, Dewhurst... 1471 01:31:56,072 --> 01:31:58,232 Hastings, Belville, and the rest. 1472 01:31:58,364 --> 01:32:00,396 But of course you know all about them. 1473 01:32:01,939 --> 01:32:03,978 You look rather excited, Chauvelin. 1474 01:32:04,488 --> 01:32:06,186 I think you need cooling down. 1475 01:32:06,618 --> 01:32:07,721 So... 1476 01:32:18,562 --> 01:32:20,419 Just a peaceful little nap... 1477 01:32:20,813 --> 01:32:22,979 Like we had in the Grenville library. 1478 01:32:45,839 --> 01:32:47,743 Are we really free, Percy? 1479 01:32:48,080 --> 01:32:49,723 Not you, darling. 1480 01:32:50,265 --> 01:32:52,979 Chauvelin said you'd be free the moment I died. 1481 01:32:55,651 --> 01:32:57,611 It won't be a moment sooner. 1482 01:32:59,696 --> 01:33:02,164 Land ahead! 1483 01:33:03,095 --> 01:33:04,531 Look, Marguerite! 1484 01:33:05,312 --> 01:33:06,590 England!