Pimpernel Smith (1941) ( Pimpernel' Smith ) ( The Fighting Pimpernel (Mister V) )

Pimpernel Smith (1941) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Pimpernel' Smith
Alternate Title: The Fighting Pimpernel (Mister V)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
120 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1941 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Leslie Howard

Written By:
A.G. Macdonald
Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Actors:
Leslie Howard ..... Professor Horatio Smith
Francis L. Sullivan ..... General von Graum (as Francis Sullivan)
Mary Morris ..... Ludmilla Koslowski
Hugh McDermott ..... David Maxwell
Raymond Huntley ..... Marx
Manning Whiley ..... Bertie Gregson
Peter Gawthorne ..... Sidimir Koslowski
Allan Jeayes ..... Dr. Beckendorf
Dennis Arundell ..... Hoffman
Joan Kemp-Welch ..... Teacher
Philip Friend ..... Spencer
Laurence Kitchin ..... Clarence Elstead (as Lawrence Kitchen)
David Tomlinson ..... Steve
Basil Appleby ..... Jock MacIntyre
Percy Walsh ..... Dvorak

Synopsis:

The 'Scarlet Pimpernel' legend is updated to WW2 in the breathless actioner Pimpernel Smith. Leslie Howard (who also directed) plays bespectacled and seemingly mild-mannered Professor Smith, who under cover of darkness transforms into a tireless defender of democracy. With the help of several loyal companions, Smith makes several forays into Nazi-occupied territories to rescue the oppressed victims of the Third Reich, using a phony archeological expedition to throw the villains off the track. The picture really roars into life during the cat-and-mouse exchanges between the Professor and his Gestapo antagonist Von Graum, phlegmatically enacted by the corpulent Francis L. Sullivan. In some markets, Pimpernel Smith was retitled Mister V.

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.

Professor Horatio Smith, who while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II.

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