The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror. husband wife relationship, double life, secret identity, french revolution, guillotine, dandy, aristocrat, 18th century, troubled marriage, scarlet pimpernel, reign of terror, fop, 1790s