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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
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Similarly, The Scarlet Pimpernel has been filmed at least twice and so the audience is swept along by the adventure and doesn't have time to see the holes in the plot, or find fault with the narrative style. I suspect that Orczy is one of those few writers whose stories are better seen than read, because the story itself is better than the author's style. Possibly listening to an audio version is also a better experience than reading the printed page...
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I can remember a 1950s vintage TV series that I watched in the early 60s as a pre-teen; I read the book much later. It was very action-orientated, which I think is also the strength of the book; the suspense is kept up nicely. If the novel was initially conceived as a play, that fits with how well it has been adapted to film and into pop culture.
I believe there was another TV series done in the late 1990s, but I haven't seen that.