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Pimpernel Smith (1941)

Pimpernel Smith (1941)

Drama Adventure Thriller

The man the Gestapo hates!

Release Date: 1941, July 28
Directors: Leslie Howard
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: British National Films, British National Films
Cast: David Tomlinson, Charles Paton, Leslie Howard, Michael Rennie, Michael Brennan, Sebastian Cabot, Raymond Huntley, Irene Handl, A.E. Matthews, Roddy Hughes, Richard George, Elwyn Brook-Jones

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.

Keywords:

world war ii nazi british spy