Adventure ·Drama ·Thriller · United Kingdom · 1941 · 2h 0m

"Pimpernel" Smith

Director

Cast

Leslie Howard as Professor Horatio Smith Francis L. Sullivan as General von Graum Mary Morris as Ludmilla Koslowski Hugh McDermott as David Maxwell Raymond Huntley as Marx Manning Whiley as Bertie Gregson

Crew

Mutz Greenbaum — Director of Photography Douglas Myers — Editor John Greenwood — Original Music Composer Anatole de Grunwald — Screenplay Baroness Emmuska Orczy — Novel Leslie Howard — Producer

Tagline

The man the Gestapo hates!

Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes

nazi world war ii british spy

Key Collaborators

Leslie Howard Director Mutz Greenbaum Director of Photography Douglas Myers Editor John Greenwood Original Music Composer Anatole de Grunwald Screenplay Baroness Emmuska Orczy Novel Leslie Howard Producer

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