The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel hear in the distance a noise like the rumbling of thunder – it is the start of the September massacres and hundreds of men, women and children are being slaughtered in the prisons. They are convinced they are facing death and it seems the moment they are dreading has arrived, for heavy blows are falling against the masonry around their prison window. November 1793. Lord Kulmsted is a member of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, however, for some time he has been an adherent in name only. Whether his embitterment comes from lack of money, or jealously of Sir
The Scarlet Letter (1995 film) 2011 to name the few films in his catalogue that he would take to a desert island, Oldman named "The Scarlet Letter" among his four choices. He conceded Travers's assertion that the film was "hammered" by reviewers, but argued, "There's some good work in there." The Scarlet Letter (1995 film) The Scarlet Letter is a 1995 American romantic drama film. It is a film adaptation of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel of the same name. It was directed by Roland Joffé and stars Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, and Robert Duvall. This version was "freely adapted" from Hawthorne and deviated from the