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"Pimpernel" Smith(1941)
Status: Released
Date: 1941-07-28
73%
30 Votes
Time: 2h 0m
The man the Gestapo hates!
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.
Languages: English, Italian.
Countries:
United Kingdom
ProductionCompanies:
British National Films
Movie: "Pimpernel" Smith
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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
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