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The man the Gestapo hates! - 'Pimpernel' Smith
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Title: 'Pimpernel' Smith

Release Date: 28 Jul 1941

Runtime: 2h

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Director: British National Films

Production Companies: British National Films

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.

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Average Vote: 7.1 (24 votes)

Cast

  • Professor Horatio Smith: Leslie Howard
  • General von Graum: Francis L. Sullivan
  • Ludmilla Koslowski: Mary Morris
  • David Maxwell: Hugh McDermott
  • Marx: Raymond Huntley
  • Bertie Gregson: Manning Whiley
  • Sidimir Koslowski: Peter Gawthorne
  • Dr Benckendorf: Allan Jeayes
  • Hoffman: Dennis Arundell
  • School-Teacher: Joan Kemp-Welch
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