#for more musings on Lee's contemporaneous career see my The Vise post in the fave spotting tag
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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
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