'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
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
Joan Kemp-Welch
as School-Teacher
Philip Friend
as Spencer
David Tomlinson
as Steve
Roland Pertwee
as Embassy Official - Sir George Smith
Charles Paton
as Steinhof
Aubrey Mallalieu
as Dean
Bryan Herbert
as Jaromir
Arthur Hambling
as Jordan
Ernest Butcher
as Weber
Hugh Pryse
as Wagner
Michael Brennan
as Camp Guard with Lantern
Sebastian Cabot
as Bit Role
Irene Handl
as Bit Part
Ronald Howard
as Minor Role
Stuart Latham
as Telephone Operator
Michael Rennie
as Prison Camp Officer
John Slater
as Reporter
Harry Terry
as Camp Guard
A.E. Matthews
as Earl of Meadowbrook
