#apologies upfront for the shoddy picture quality which is partly on me and partly on the source

[mariocki]

An uncredited Christopher Lee is pumped for information but reveals nothing, as Louis, the dreaded executioner, in The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel: The Elusive Chauvelin (1.7, ITP, 1955)

#fave spotting #christopher lee #the adventures of the scarlet pimpernel #1955 #itp #itc #also bonus patrick troughton in his silly little hat #classic tv #apologies upfront for the shoddy picture quality which is partly on me and partly on the source #going by Network's dvds I have to assume this ep exists only in an inferior copy state; there's a noticeable and considerable #drop in picture quality throughout this whole ep compared to the previous six #lee and troughton would be reunited on a couple of Hammer films‚ most notably Scars of Dracula #although in fact they'd both worked on Olivier's 1948 film of Hamlet: Pat in a small supporting role as one of the players in the play #within the play‚ christopher uncredited (again!) as a guard. Peter Cushing was also in that film and would also meet Troughton again #in The Gorgon (also with Chris!). ah the small world of brit actors of yesteryear #for more musings on Lee's contemporaneous career see my The Vise post in the fave spotting tag