"Pimpernel" Smith (1941)

7.0/10 120 min Adventure Drama Thriller

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.

Cast

Leslie Howard

Professor Horatio Smith

Francis L. Sullivan

General von Graum

Mary Morris

Ludmilla Koslowski

Hugh McDermott

David Maxwell

Raymond Huntley

Marx

Manning Whiley

Bertie Gregson

Peter Gawthorne

Sidimir Koslowski

Allan Jeayes

Dr Benckendorf

Joan Kemp-Welch

School-Teacher

Philip Friend

Spencer

David Tomlinson

Steve

Roland Pertwee

Embassy Official - Sir George Smith

Charles Paton

Steinhof

Aubrey Mallalieu

Dean

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