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"Pimpernel" Smith

1941 • 2h0m Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Rating

7.2/10

Popularity

1

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

Director

Leslie Howard

Screenplay

Anatole de Grunwald

Cast

Leslie Howard

Francis L. Sullivan

Mary Morris

Release date

7/28/1941

Status

Released

Origin country

GB

Vote count

27