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DVD : The Scarlet Pimpernel Boxed SetIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Stuart Fox, Sarah Berger, Dalibor Sipek, Suzanne Bertish, Jonathan Coy directed by: Edward Bennett, Patrick Lau  List Price: $59.95 Amazon.com's Price: $49.99 You Save: $9.96 (17%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780767026123 Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 0767026128 Label: A&E Home Video Manufacturer: A&E Home Video Number Of Items: 3 Publisher: A&E Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 30, 2000 Running Time: 294 minutes Studio: A&E Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 31, 1999 Sales Rank: 33397 MPN: 70110 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Scarlet Pimpernel Book 3: Kidnapped King returns the series to the swashbuckling adventure of the first film. The dauphin has been kidnapped and both the Pimpernel and the Republicans are on his trail. Marguerite (Elizabeth McGovern) returns to France for a little undercover skullduggery while Percy (Richard E. Grant) travels to Paris and reunites his network of spies and secret agents. Grant plays the effete but snide Percy for all he's worth, a flamboyant snob with a tart tongue, while McGovern's Marguerite is the wayward daughter of the revolution come home for the cause. They're both covers, of course, but the play-acting becomes public theater when they hiss and spit a public breakup in front of the Republican government and Percy skulks out looking every inch the spineless fop. Free of suspicion from all but the cagey Republican agent Chauvelin (Martin Shaw), the Scarlet Pimpernel again rises to save the oppressed, shadow the suspicious, and track down the hiding place of the dauphin's captors. The plot of secret identities and murky alliances climaxes (in the best swashbuckling tradition) with crossed swords but concludes with a sneaky new conspiracy that opens the door for even more sequels. Suzanne Bertish guest stars as the theater star with a secret La Tourain. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Moderately Entertaining but Lacking Perfection The Scarlet Pimpernel Box Set contains: Disk 1 The Scarlet Pimpernel Disk 2 Mademoiselle Guillotine Disk 3 The Kidnapped King I enjoyed watching disk 2 Mademoiselle Guillotine the most. It had a relatively easy-to-follow plot-line as well as interesting characters (and decent acting). The other two episodes were too compacted in my opinion. They combined too much too quickly, leaving the viewer a bit confused (especially if the viewer is not familiar ... Read More Rating:  - Books any child should read?One reviewer here comments that the Pimpernel books are ones any child should read. Well, not in the original perhaps: the Barnoness' original "Scarlet Pimpernel" book is blatently anti-Semitic in the very "best" English uppercrust tradition of the sixteenth-twentieth centuries. In order to appear harmless and keep the villain at arms length, the hero disguises himself as a typical old dirty grasping servile cowering cowardly Jew. Let the kiddies watch the videos instead. Rating:  - Wonderful escapism...great storyPerfect when you want to watch something that takes you to a different time and place...romantic, exciting, idealistic, arch and classic. Rating: - I Loved This Production. WONDERFUL!!!!!I realize that this adaptation is not exactly authentic to Orczy's novel, however I LOVED IT. I feel that A&E/BBC productions are brilliant. This version of Pimpernel is decadent, spicy, fun and hilarious. Watch with an open mind and enjoy. Rating: - Wildly EntertainingAlthough no mysteries of life will be revealed in this series, it was entertaining beyond belief. Mr. Grant added a dimension that was unique: he was all the Pimpernel should be and incredibly charismatic. All the acting was excellent, but his stood out in particular since he embodied the hero so well and was so charming. I will miss not being able to watch more of this excellent actor. Someone in an earlier review criticized him as not being their idea of a leading man. To me, he was one of the best leading ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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