The Elusive Pimpernel(1950)

movie - first aired/released 1950-11-07 - audience 6.0

Directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

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.