‘Pimpernel’ Smith
Rating: 7.3/1200 Plot Summary:
It is mid-1939 and both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict. Professor Horatio Smith, an effete academic, asks his students to come with him to the continent to engage in an archaeological dig. When his students discover that the professor is the man responsible for smuggling a number of enemies of the Nazi state out of Germany, they enthusiastically join him in his fight. But things are complicated when one of his students brings a mysterious woman into their circle, a woman who is secretly working for the Gestapo.
Director: Leslie Howard
Running time: 2h
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Release date: 22 May 1945 (Sweden)
Cast: Allan Jeayes, Peter Gawthorne, Ernest Butcher, Ben Williams, Leslie Howard, Arthur Hambling, Joan Kemp-Welch, Hugh McDermott, Manning Whiley, Philip Friend, Basil Appleby, Laurence Kitchin, David Tomlinson, Mary Brown
