 The film was produced by Alexander Korda.In 1792, at the bloody height of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, vengeful French mobs are outraged when again and again French aristocrats are saved from death by the audacious "Band of the Scarlet Pimpernel", a secret society of 20 English noblemen, "one to command, and nineteen to obey".Among the latest scheduled for execution are the Count de Tournay, former ambassador to Great Britain, and his family.