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"Pimpernel" Smith

1941-07-282h 0mAdventure / Drama / Thriller7.1/10TMDB · 32 votes

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.

“The man the Gestapo hates!”

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Directed byLeslie Howard

Original languageEnglish

Original release1941-07-28

ProductionUnited Kingdom

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Leslie HowardProfessor Horatio Smith

Francis L. SullivanGeneral von Graum

Mary MorrisLudmilla Koslowski

Hugh McDermottDavid Maxwell

Raymond HuntleyMarx

Manning WhileyBertie Gregson

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Peter GawthorneSidimir Koslowski Allan JeayesDr Benckendorf Dennis ArundellHoffman Joan Kemp-WelchSchool-Teacher Philip FriendSpencer Laurence KitchinClarence Elstead David TomlinsonSteve Basil ApplebyJock MacIntyre Percy WalshDvorak Suzanne ClairSalesgirl Roland PertweeEmbassy Official - Sir George Smith Charles PatonSteinhof Aubrey MallalieuDean George StreetSchmidt Oriel RossLady Willoughby Bryan HerbertJaromir Arthur HamblingJordan Ben WilliamsGraubitz Ernest ButcherWeber Mary BrownGirl Student W. PhillipInnkeeper Ilse BardGretchen Ernest VerneGerman Officer Hector AbbasKarl Meyer Neal ArdenSecond Prisoner Richard GeorgePrison Guard Roddy HughesZigor Hugh PryseWagner Michael BrennanCamp Guard with Lantern Elwyn Brook-JonesBit Part Sebastian CabotBit Role Peter CozensMan Arthur DentonGestapo Man Following Smith Irene HandlBit Part Vincent HolmanDoctor at Diggings Ronald HowardMinor Role Stuart LathamTelephone Operator Michael RenniePrison Camp Officer Charles RolfeGerman Officer at Customs John SlaterReporter Harry TerryCamp Guard A.E. MatthewsEarl of Meadowbrook

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