The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1982 British romantic adventure television film set during the French Revolution. It is based on the novels "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1905) and "Eldorado" (1913) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, and stars Anthony Andrews as Sir Percy Blakeney/the Scarlet Pimpernel, the protagonist, Jane Seymour as Marguerite St. Just, the love interest, and Ian McKellen as Chauvelin, the antagonist.