"Pimpernel" Smith

7.2 1941 2h 0m United Kingdom

Adventure Drama Thriller

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.

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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.

Details

Directors

Leslie Howard

Writers

Anatole de Grunwald, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Roland Pertwee, A. G. MacDonell, Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Cast

Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Morris, Hugh McDermott, Raymond Huntley, Manning Whiley, Peter Gawthorne, Allan Jeayes, Dennis Arundell, Joan Kemp-Welch, Philip Friend, Laurence Kitchin, David Tomlinson, Basil Appleby, Percy Walsh

Production

British National Films

Languages

English, Italian

Countries

United Kingdom