December 11 movie: The Scarlet Pimpernel. Now this was fun. _ The Scarlet Pimpernel (played by Leslie Howard) is a British aristocrat rescuing French aristocrats from execution during the French Revolution. It was indeed very much like Zorro, except that unlike loner Zorro, the Pimpernel has a bunch of good guy lackeys helping him. They do act like dandies to conceal their heroic daring-do, just like Zorro. Howard's foppish routine is a blast: prancing around saying "Sink me!" and critiquing everyone's neckwear. Howard even makes up a poem about himself:
They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven, or is he in hell?
That damned elusive Pimpernel!
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"Think you that I, foppish though I am, might be the Thhhcarlet Pumpernickel?"
The Duck's greatest role.
The really cool thing is that yesterday I received a seed catalog which sells scarlet pimpernel! I have no idea what it looks like (no photo in the catalog) but I think I have to buy it, just because.