Amidst Robespierre's Reign of Terror, when the guillotine was always at the ready, the Scarlet Pimpernel defies the Revolutionaries to rescue the innocent. Yet the Pimpernel's wife, Lady Blakeney, the wittiest and most beautiful woman in London, is unaware of her husband's secret. When not disguised as his alter ego, Sir Percy Blakeley appears to be nothing but a handsome playboy. Join the Pimpernel as he risks his life for justice and Lady Blakeney as she discovers her husband's true identitiy.

[Big city] To avoid a taxi war, city officials blame a gang bombing on driver Joe Benton's wife, Anna, which leads to her being deported. The mayor is speaker at a boxers' banquet where Joe pleads for them to go with him to the wharf and rescue Anna from the ship. [The emperor's candlesticks] Male Polish secret agent and female Russian secret police spy smuggle messages to Petersburg in candlesticks and while chasing after stolen candlesticks discover each other's identity and fall in love. [The toy wife] A beautiful sixteen-year-old girl who charms, attracts and seduces all the men she meets is sure to ruin her life and lots of others by stealing an engaged man from his future wife and then cheating on him with the man she really loves.