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"Pimpernel" Smith is a 1941 British anti-Nazi thriller, produced and directed by its star Leslie Howard, which updates his role in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) from Revolutionary France to pre-Second World War Europe. The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described his work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda".
Pimpernel Smith. Leslie Howard stars as Professor Horatio Smith, a seemingly bookish educator, who performs a rescue mission during WWII. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
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Pimpernel Smith. Available on iTunes. An absent-minded professor on an archaeological dig is actually a dashing agent rescuing refugees from the clutches of Nazi officers. Drama 1941 2 hr 2 min.
Synopsis. 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 ...
Pimpernel Smith (1941) was the first of three propaganda films that Howard directed, followed by the equally laudable The First of the Few (1942) and The Gentle Sex (1943). Although it is far more subtle than most wartime propaganda films of this era, Pimpernel Smith left its audience in no doubt as to the nature and magnitude of the threat ...
