The Elusive Pimpernel

Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

With David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack, Jack Hawkins and Arlette Marchal

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.