Great movie, pity about the DVD !
This great version of 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' deserves the full Criterion or Anchor Bay treatment -- this Madacy DVD is a disgrace! Murky picture and muddy sound -- skip it and go instead to Amazon's UK site where you can pick up on Region 2 DVD the fantastic 1980s version with Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour and Ian McKellen. Don't bother with the recent TV series with the normally excellent Richard E Grant -- it's a travesty, with none of the spirit of the book, so faithfully re-created in both the Leslie Howard and Anthony Andrews versions.