Leslie Howard
Professor Horatio Smith
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Jan 22, 2014 · http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034027/Starring, directed by, and produced by my dearest darling Leslie Howard.This film reportedly inspired the heroic actions ...
Jan 24, 2021 · Pimpernel Smith (1941) 01/24/2021 | 1h 55m 55s | Video has closed captioning. Seemingly mild-mannered archaeology professor (Leslie Howard) travels to Nazi Germany to do research on the Aryan...
Summaries. Professor Horatio Smith, while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II. Spring, 1939. The Nazis are frustrated that a number of men, German nationals and non-nationals alike that have refused to work for them, have managed to escape from the country with the aid of unknown rescuers or perhaps ...
"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".
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 ...
Based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy and modeled after the 1934 film of the same name, Pimpernel Smith is said to have influenced Raoul Wallenberg, known for his heroism in rescuing Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust.
Sep 10, 2012 · Time Out says. Leslie Howard was among the British actors based in Hollywood who returned home during World War I to do their bit for the war effort, and this tale of a reincarnated Scarlet ...
