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"Pimpernel" Smith (1941)
Directed by Leslie Howard
“The man the Gestapo hates!”
Adventure, Drama, Thriller · 2h 00m
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
Cast
Leslie Howard
Professor Horatio Smith
Francis L. Sullivan
General von Graum
Mary Morris
Ludmilla Koslowski
Hugh McDermott
David Maxwell
Raymond Huntley
Marx
Manning Whiley
Bertie Gregson
Peter Gawthorne
Sidimir Koslowski
Allan Jeayes
Dr Benckendorf
D
Dennis Arundell
Hoffman
Joan Kemp-Welch
School-Teacher
Philip Friend
Spencer
L
Laurence Kitchin
Clarence Elstead
Crew
- Director
- Leslie Howard
- Screenplay
- Anatole de Grunwald
- Novel
- Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- Director of Photography
- Mutz Greenbaum
- Original Music Composer
- John Greenwood
- Editor
- Douglas Myers
- Producer
- Leslie Howard
Details
- Release date
- 1941-07-28
- Runtime
- 2h 00m
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Italian
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- British National Films