Scarlet Pimpernel - Mendoza Fight

The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1934. Starring Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon. In an inconsequential scene, Lord Percy Blakeny, the Scarlet Pimpernel's rich fop play-boy disguise, visits a Mendoza fight as one of The Fancy.

Note the boxers sitting on the knees of their Seconds and the gratuitous use of the Cross-Buttock.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Scarlet
• Pimpernel
• Mendoza
• Boxing
• Cross-Buttock

[Amkii]

Good Lord I adore this movie. One of my all-time favorites! Leslie Howard is just...the perfect Percy!

[michaelluver]

i loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee this movie & leslie howard was just the sexiest thing, back then.

[synchro101]

@michaelluver AMEN!

[tcrownprince]

Awesome part of the movie =)

[Estetus]

I wish that the clip was just a little bit longer. XD When he talks about the match and describes how he "helped" Mendoza.

- And then I said: "Mendoza! Don't lay around there! Get up!" And damn it he did!

(can't remeber exactly what he said, only that it made me laugh XD)

[ElphabaThroppFae]

Thank you! I'm just not a big fan of older movies, so I've not seen a whole lot.

[babajaga39]

at the end, in high hat: "go on, Mendoza! where is he? where is he?" that is les howard, a great actor of hungarian origin: I am so proud of him ( i am hungarian too).

[ElphabaThroppFae]

Okay, honestly, that *does* help a bit, knowing I'm not the only one who doesn't recognize older stars.

[mithol]

:O Well, I don't remember seeing him in this scene.

And don't feel too bad. My friend did not know who Charlie Chaplin was. We showed her a picture of him, and she still didn't know...

[ElphabaThroppFae]

Wanna know who's a disgrace? Me. I don't even know who Leslie Howard is, or which one he plays in this scene.

[mithol]

I must see this movie. I am a disgrace. I have only seen two Leslie howard movies.