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"Pimpernel" Smith
The man the Gestapo hates!
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.
- Original title
- "Pimpernel" Smith
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB
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Jun 25, 2022 · via TMDB
Leslie Howard is on good form here as the outwardly fastidious academic with a secret to keep. He decides to offer some of his students an holiday trip to Germany (just the boys!) so they can try to establish once and for all whether there was an "Aryan" race there. Quickly we discover he also has an hand in rescuing many creative and scientifically minded for the evil clutch of the Nazis and their chocolate eating boss "General von Graum" (Francis L. Sullivan). As the students get in on the act, it's the American "David" (Hugh McDermott) who is most itching for action and it's also him who falls for the charms of "Ludmilla" (Mary Morris) who is treading a very dangerous path trying to save her imprisoned father whilst not betraying this updated iteration of Howard's "Scarlet Pimpernel". There's some lovely writing here - especially from the swastika wearing propagandists who insist that their nation is the ideal place to live and work. As the story progresses, there becomes something effectively sinister about the denouement and the battle of wills between Howard and a very much on form Sullivan that delivers one of the more memorable wartime thrillers.
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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
Joan Kemp-Welch
School-Teacher
Philip Friend
Spencer
David Tomlinson
Steve
Roland Pertwee
Embassy Official - Sir George Smith
Charles Paton
Steinhof
Aubrey Mallalieu
Dean
Bryan Herbert
Jaromir
Arthur Hambling
Jordan
Ernest Butcher
Weber
Hugh Pryse
Wagner
Michael Brennan
Camp Guard with Lantern
Sebastian Cabot
Bit Role
Irene Handl
Bit Part
Ronald Howard
Minor Role
Stuart Latham
Telephone Operator
Michael Rennie
Prison Camp Officer
John Slater
Reporter
Harry Terry
Camp Guard
A.E. Matthews
Earl of Meadowbrook
Jack Hildyard
Camera Operator
George Pollock
Assistant Director
Leslie Howard
Director
Harold Huth
Associate Producer
Leslie Howard
Producer
Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Novel
Anatole de Grunwald
Scenario Writer
Roland Pertwee
Scenario Writer
Anatole de Grunwald
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