Editing The Scarlet Pimpernel (section)

===Films===
In 1923, Fred Terry and Julia Nelson bought the sole performance right to a stageplay based on ''The Scarlet Pimpernel''. Orczy sued the two in an attempt to claim a separate right of performance for films, but was unsuccessful. As a result of the case, people who controlled a stage performance right under the English Copyright Act were entitled to create films with the same right.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://archive.org/details/variety75-1924-06/page/n137 |title=London Ruling on Play Film Rights |date=24 June 1924 |work=Variety |access-date=2019-12-22 |publisher=New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company}}</ref>

[[File:Scarlet-Pimpernel-Dustin-Farnum.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Dustin Farnum]] in ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' (1917)]]
* ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' (1917; silent) starring [[Dustin Farnum]], [[Winifred Kingston]] and [[William Burress]]
* ''[[The Elusive Pimpernel (1919 film)|The Elusive Pimpernel]]'' (1919; silent) starring [[Cecil Humphreys]], Maire Blanche and [[Norman Page]]
* ''[[I Will Repay (film)|I Will Repay]]'' (1923; silent) starring [[Holmes Herbert]]
* ''[[The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (film)|The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' (1928) starring [[Matheson Lang]]
* ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 film)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' (1934) starring [[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]], [[Merle Oberon]] and [[Raymond Massey]]
* ''[[The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' (1937) starring [[Barry K. Barnes]], [[Sophie Stewart]] and [[Francis Lister]]
* ''[[The Elusive Pimpernel (1950 film)|The Elusive Pimpernel]]'' (1950), a.k.a. ''The Fighting Pimpernel'' in the US, starring [[David Niven]], [[Margaret Leighton]] and [[Cyril Cusack]]
* ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982 film)]]''