Cinema Studies – Foreign Movie

FOREIGN MOVIE

Friday, July 19th, 1:30 to 4:00pm

Lawrence Public Library, Room “C“

 

“The Scarlet  Pimpernel” (Action, Drama) 1982, 2hr 22min

After France became a republic in 1792, aristocrats were guillotined.  The English Sir Percy tries to save as many as he can as the Scarlet Pimpernel in disguises.

Directed by Clive Donner and written by William Bast (teleplay and  Baroness Emmuska Orczy the movie won the Emmy for Outstanding Costume Design for a Limited Series.