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'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)
Directed by Leslie Howard
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.
Length 120 minutes
Actors
Leslie Howard | Francis L. Sullivan | Mary Morris | Hugh McDermott | Raymond Huntley | Manning Whiley | Peter Gawthorne | Allan Jeayes | Dennis Arundell | Joan Kemp-Welch | Philip Friend | Laurence Kitchin | David Tomlinson | Basil Appleby | Percy Walsh | Suzanne Clair | Roland Pertwee | Charles Paton | Aubrey Mallalieu | George Street | Oriel Ross | Bryan Herbert | Arthur Hambling | Ben Williams | Ernest Butcher | Mary Brown | W. Phillip | Ilse Bard | Ernest Verne | Hector Abbas | Neal Arden | Richard George | Roddy Hughes | Hugh Pryse | Michael Brennan | Elwyn Brook-Jones | Sebastian Cabot | Peter Cozens | Arthur Denton | Irene Handl | Vincent Holman | Ronald Howard | Stuart Latham | Michael Rennie | Charles Rolfe | John Slater | Harry Terry | A.E. Matthews