The Scarlet And The Black DVD

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The scarlet and the black with Gregory Peck and Christopher Plummer based on j. P. Gallagher's book "the scarlet pimpernel of the vatican," this adventure film tells the story of a real-life hero. Monsignor Hugh o'flaherty challenged Nazi officers and his Vatican superiors to save the lives of jews during world war ii. Fr. Hugh o'flaherty (gregory peck) is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic Country prevents colonel kappler (christopher plummer) from openly arresting him, but o'flaherty's activities become so large that the nazi's decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the vatican. O'flaherty continues his work in a variety of disguises. With german soldiers controlling rome, o'flaherty made a determined effort to hide and shuttle to safety as many jewish people in the city as possible. But his task wasn't easy because a villainous german colonel suspected just what