'Pimpernel' Smith

'Pimpernel' Smith

120 mins | Drama, Thriller, Adventure | July 26, 1941

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.

'Pimpernel' Smith

120 mins | Drama, Thriller, Adventure | July 26, 1941

'Pimpernel' Smith
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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers British National Films
Original title 'Pimpernel' Smith
Directors Leslie Howard, George Pollock
Writers A. G. MacDonell, Roland Pertwee, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Anatole de Grunwald, Wolfgang Wilhelm

Cast

Leslie Howard

as Professor Horatio Smith

Francis L. Sullivan

as General von Graum

Mary Morris

as Ludmilla Koslowski

Hugh McDermott

as David Maxwell

Raymond Huntley

as Marx

Manning Whiley

as Bertie Gregson

Peter Gawthorne

as Sidimir Koslowski

Allan Jeayes

as Dr Benckendorf

Dennis Arundell

as Hoffman

Joan Kemp-Welch

as School-Teacher

Philip Friend

as Spencer

Laurence Kitchin

as Clarence Elstead

David Tomlinson

as Steve

Basil Appleby

as Jock MacIntyre

Percy Walsh

as Dvorak

Suzanne Clair

as Salesgirl

Roland Pertwee

as Embassy Official - Sir George Smith

Charles Paton

as Steinhof

George Street

as Schmidt

Oriel Ross

as Lady Willoughby

Bryan Herbert

as Jaromir

Arthur Hambling

as Jordan

Ben Williams

as Graubitz

Ernest Butcher

as Weber

Mary Brown

as Girl Student

W. Phillip

as Innkeeper

Ilse Bard

as Gretchen

Ernest Verne

as German Officer

Hector Abbas

as Karl Meyer

Neal Arden

as Second Prisoner

Richard George

as Prison Guard

Roddy Hughes

as Zigor

Hugh Pryse

as Wagner

Michael Brennan

as Camp Guard with Lantern

Elwyn Brook-Jones

as Bit Part

Sebastian Cabot

as Bit Role

Peter Cozens

as Man

Arthur Denton

as Gestapo Man Following Smith

Irene Handl

as Bit Part

Vincent Holman

as Doctor at Diggings

Ronald Howard

as Minor Role

Stuart Latham

as Telephone Operator

Michael Rennie

as Prison Camp Officer

Charles Rolfe

as German Officer at Customs

John Slater

as Reporter

Harry Terry

as Camp Guard

A.E. Matthews

as Earl of Meadowbrook