"Pimpernel" Smith
The man the Gestapo hates!
1941 · 2h · Passed
Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Leslie Howard
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Leslie Howard Director
- 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
- Peter Gawthorne as Sidimir Koslowski
- Allan Jeayes as Dr Benckendorf
- Dennis Arundell as Hoffman
- Joan Kemp-Welch as School-Teacher
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