The Elusive Pimpernel, Information Folder. POWELL (Michael) an PRESSBURGER (Emeric).

Folio. [343 x 210 x 25 mm]. Typeset on recto only of [200]ff. Stapled into red wrapper with typeset label on the front. [ebc8111]

London Film Productions, June, 1949.

The Elusive Pimpernel was a light-hearted 1950 British period adventure film based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. It was released in the United States in 1954 under the title The Fighting Pimpernel. Directed, written and produced by Powell and Pressburger, it was financed by Samuel Goldwyn and Alexander Korda, and starred David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack and Robert Coote. It's box office take was £133,354 against a budget of £477,000.

The information folder provided promotional details on the narrative of the story as well as extensive information on the actors and actresses, crew and shooting locations. "The story of the Elusive Pimpernel will especially please every gentleman who, when a boy, liked to play Red Indians and every lady who, when a little girl, wanted to be a little boy. It is an adventure story in the grand manner ... and in Technicolor".