
Foppish Sir Percy Blakeney, who secretly leads a double life as the daring rescuer of French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution, fights to save his brother-in-law while his wife is manipulated by the villainous Chauvelin into helping capture him, unaware of her husband's true identity.

David Niven
Percy "Scarlet Pimpernel" Blakeney

Margaret Leighton
Marguerite Blakeney

Cyril Cusack
Chauvelin

Jack Hawkins
Prince of Wales

Arlette Marchal
Contesses de Tournai

Gérard Néry
Philippe de Tournai

Charles Victor
Colonel Winterbotham

Danielle Godet
Suzanne de Tournai
Edmond Audran
Armand St. Juste

Eugene Deckers
Captain Merieres

David Oxley
Captain Duroc
Raymond Rollett
Bibot

Philip Stainton
Jellyband

John Longden
The Abbot
George De Warfaz
Baron