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Film / 1941
"Pimpernel" Smith
Directed by
Leslie Howard
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Leslie HowardProfessor Horatio Smith
Francis L. SullivanGeneral von Graum
Mary MorrisLudmilla Koslowski
Hugh McDermottDavid Maxwell
Raymond HuntleyMarx
Manning WhileyBertie Gregson
Peter GawthorneSidimir Koslowski
Allan JeayesDr Benckendorf
Dennis ArundellHoffman
Joan Kemp-WelchSchool-Teacher
Philip FriendSpencer
Laurence KitchinClarence Elstead
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David TomlinsonSteve
Basil ApplebyJock MacIntyre
Percy WalshDvorak
Suzanne ClairSalesgirl
Roland PertweeEmbassy Official - Sir George Smith
Charles PatonSteinhof
Aubrey MallalieuDean
George StreetSchmidt
Oriel RossLady Willoughby
Bryan HerbertJaromir
Arthur HamblingJordan
Ben WilliamsGraubitz
Ernest ButcherWeber
Mary BrownGirl Student
W. PhillipInnkeeper
Ilse BardGretchen
Ernest VerneGerman Officer
Hector AbbasKarl Meyer
Neal ArdenSecond Prisoner
Richard GeorgePrison Guard
Roddy HughesZigor
Hugh PryseWagner
Michael BrennanCamp Guard with Lantern
Elwyn Brook-JonesBit Part
Sebastian CabotBit Role
Peter CozensMan
Arthur DentonGestapo Man Following Smith
Irene HandlBit Part
Vincent HolmanDoctor at Diggings
Ronald HowardMinor Role
Stuart LathamTelephone Operator
Michael RenniePrison Camp Officer
Charles RolfeGerman Officer at Customs
John SlaterReporter
Harry TerryCamp Guard
A.E. MatthewsEarl of Meadowbrook
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