'Pimpernel' Smith
'Pimpernel' Smith
Release: 1941-07-28
·Runtime: 120m
·★ 7.2
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
British National Films
Cast
Manning Whiley
as Bertie Gregson
Allan Jeayes
as Dr Benckendorf
Hugh McDermott
as David Maxwell
Roland Pertwee
as Embassy Official - Sir George Smith
Sebastian Cabot
as Bit Role
Ronald Howard
as Minor Role
John Slater
as Reporter
Aubrey Mallalieu
as Dean
Arthur Hambling
as Jordan
Leslie Howard
as Professor Horatio Smith
Peter Gawthorne
as Sidimir Koslowski
David Tomlinson
as Steve
Charles Paton
as Steinhof
Bryan Herbert
as Jaromir
Hugh Pryse
as Wagner
Francis L. Sullivan
as General von Graum
Michael Rennie
as Prison Camp Officer
Philip Friend
as Spencer
Stuart Latham
as Telephone Operator
Mary Morris
as Ludmilla Koslowski
Ernest Butcher
as Weber
Michael Brennan
as Camp Guard with Lantern
Irene Handl
as Bit Part
Raymond Huntley
as Marx
Joan Kemp-Welch
as School-Teacher
Harry Terry
as Camp Guard
A.E. Matthews
as Earl of Meadowbrook
