I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

the audience applauded

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

As other reviewers have said the exceedingly handsome Anthony Andrews seems born to play this role. He is an excellent actor with an upper-class accent who can just nail a foppish dandy like Sir Percy Blakeney (aka The Scarlet Pimpernel) with ease. Jane Seymour is a pretty good actress & is just about as beautiful as a woman can possibly be. She too makes the most of her role as Marguerite St Just. James Villiers was another actor with an upper-crust background & he too is perfectly cast as Baron De Batz. Same goes for the other principle role of Chauvelin played by Ian McKellen. The classic story by Emma Orczy is well known as British spy The Scarlet Pimpernel tries to save french noblemen from the guillotine in late eighteenth century revolutionary France, but this production has been done with real style & panache. Anthony Andrews received enormous critical acclaim for his performance as the alcoholic turned dipsomaniac Lord Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited but in this, in my opinion, he is even better. If you haven't read the book, don't bother, just get hold of a copy of this 1982 made-for-television production. You won't be disappointed!.

Finally available on DVD is this excellent made-for-TV version of the great classic romance by Baroness Orczy. It is arguably the definitive telling of the tale, (superior even to the better known 1935 version with Leslie Howard) with its grand sets and sharply, intimate moments. Beautiful production design and great costuming convincingly pull the viewer into post-revolutionary France, there to be captivated by a young and beautiful Jane Seymour and handsome Anthony Andrews, perfectly cast as lovers held apart by a mysterious secret: Andrews' double life as the daring Scarlet Pimpernel! A memorable heroic fantasy and classic romance.

Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymoure have such chemistry during this movie! It's my #1 favorite movie of all time! I could watch it all day w/o getting sick of it! The way the characters interact and lives intertwine - it's just fabulous! The first time I saw this movie was in 10th grade History and I begged my teacher to let me take it home and make a copy! I have had it ever since and I watch it at least twice a month. My husband doesn't understand why I love it, but I suppose I am just a hopeless romantic always looking for a good hero!!! The Scarlet Pimpernel is full of action, comedy, irony - it's just an overall perfect film!

Can anyone tell me just what 'cinque me' means? I use it all the time now. It seems covers a multitude of situations and I can hide behind the fact that no one, including myself, knows just what I've exclaimed. Am hoping that through this venue, someone will know the meaning behind his words. Haven't found even a French speaking person that can come up with a adequate translation. His posture intones 'Oh, bother' but the words in French doesn't match. Watched this movie five times in one weekend. Now I'll have to ask Santa for a copy of my very own for Christmas. I loved the way Percy could say his 'fop' lines and change his persona in almost the same instance.