---
title: 'The Fighting Pimpernel (1950)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Emeric Pressburger'
released: '1950-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 109
genres:
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-fighting-pimpernel-1950'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042432/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Fighting Pimpernel (1950)

1950 · 109 min · Adventure · United Kingdom

Original title: The Elusive Pimpernel

## Synopsis

The Elusive Pimpernel is a 1950 British period adventure film by the British-based director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. It was released in the United States under the title The Fighting Pimpernel. The picture stars David Niven as Sir Percy Blakeney and Margaret Leighton as Marguerite Blakeney and features Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack and Robert Coote. Originally intended to be a musical, the film was re-worked as a light-hearted drama.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Emeric Pressburger](https://cinepixo.com/people/emeric-pressburger), [Michael Powell](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-powell)
- **Screenplay:** [Michael Powell](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-powell)
- **Producer:** [Michael Powell](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-powell)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Brian Easdale](https://cinepixo.com/people/brian-easdale)
- **Director of Photography:** [Christopher Challis](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-challis)

## Cast

- [Patrick Macnee](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrick-macnee)
- [Edmond Audran](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmond-audran-2)
- [Hugh Kelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugh-kelly)
- [Tommy Duggan](https://cinepixo.com/people/tommy-duggan)
- [Arthur Wontner](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-wontner)
- [Jack Hawkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-hawkins)
- [Terence Alexander](https://cinepixo.com/people/terence-alexander)
- [David Niven](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-niven) as Percy Blakeney
- [Howard Vernon](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-vernon)
- [Danielle Godet](https://cinepixo.com/people/danielle-godet)
- [John Fitzgerald](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-fitzgerald)
- [Philip Stainton](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-stainton)
- [John Longden](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-longden)
- [Cyril Cusack](https://cinepixo.com/people/cyril-cusack)
- [Robert Coote](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-coote)

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