Pimpernel' Smith / The Scarlet Pimpernel

Pimpernel' Smith / The Scarlet Pimpernel (DVD) (*)

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

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

Running Time:
210 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Special Edition
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1934-1941 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Leslie Howard
Harold Young

Written By:
Anatole de Grunwald
A.G. Macdonell
Wolfgang Wilhelm
Roland Pertwee
Ian Dalrymple
Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Alexander Korda
Montagu Barstow

Actors:
Leslie Howard ..... Professor Horatio Smith
Allan Jeayes ..... Dr. Benckendorf
Francis L. Sullivan ..... General von Graum
Mary Morris ..... Ludmilla Koslowski
Hugh McDermott ..... David Maxwell
Raymond Huntley ..... Marx
Manning Whiley ..... Bertie Gregson
Peter Gawthorne ..... Sidimir Koslowski
Dennis Arundell ..... Hoffman
Joan Kemp-Welch ..... School-Teacher
Philip Friend ..... Spencer
Laurence Kitchin ..... Clarence Elstead
David Tomlinson ..... Steve
Basil Appleby ..... Jock MacIntyre
Percy Walsh ..... Dvorak
A.E. Matthews ..... Earl of Meadowbrook
Aubrey Mallalieu ..... Dean
Ben Williams ..... Graubitz
Ernest Butcher ..... Weber
Arthur Hambling ..... Jordan
Mary Brown ..... Betty
W. Phillips ..... Innkeeper
Ilse Bard ..... Gretchen
Ernest Verne ..... Hans
George Street ..... Schmidt
Hector Abbas ..... Karl Meyer
Neal Arden ..... Second Prisoner
Roland Pertwee ..... Embassy Official - Sir George Smith
Richard George ..... Prison Guard
Roddy Hughes ..... Zigor
Hugh Pryse ..... Wagner
Oriel Ross ..... Lady Willoughby
Bryan Herbert ..... Jaromir
Suzanne Clair ..... Salesgirl
Charles Paton ..... Steinhof
Michael Brennan ..... Camp Guard with Lantern
Elwyn Brook-Jones ..... Bit Part
Sebastian Cabot ..... Bit Role
Peter Cozens ..... Man
Arthur Denton ..... Gestapo Man Following Smith
Irene Handl ..... Bit Part
Adolf Hitler ..... Self (archiveFootage
Vincent Holman ..... Doctor at Diggings
Ronald Howard ..... Minor Role
Stuart Latham ..... Telephone Operator
Leslie Howard ..... Sir Percy Blakeney
Merle Oberon ..... Lady Blakeney
Raymond Massey ..... Chauvelin
Nigel Bruce ..... The Prince of Wales
Bramwell Fletcher ..... The Priest
Anthony Bushell ..... Sir Andrew Ffoulkes
Joan Gardner ..... Suzanne de Tournay
Walter Rilla ..... Armand St. Just
Mabel Terry-Lewis ..... Countess de Tournay
O.B. Clarence ..... Count de Tournay
Ernest Milton ..... Robespierre
Edmund Breon ..... Col. Winterbottom
Melville Cooper ..... Romney
Gibb McLaughlin ..... The Barber
Morland Graham ..... Treadle (the tailor)
John Turnbull ..... Jellyband
Gertrude Musgrove ..... Sally - Jellyband's Daughter
Allan Jeayes ..... Lord Grenville
A. Bromley Davenport ..... French innkeeper (Brogard)
William Freshman ..... Lord Hastings
Hindle Edgar ..... Lord Wilmot
Bruce Belfrage ..... Pitt
Noel Birkin
Toska Bissing
Frederick Culley
Derrick De Marney ..... Member of the League
Hugh Dempster ..... Member of the League
Philip Desborough ..... Member of the League
Annie Esmond ..... Lady W
Arthur Hambling ..... Captain of the Guard
Lawrence Hanray ..... Burke
Carl Harbord ..... Member of the League
Kenneth Kove ..... Codlin - Fisherman
Renée Macready ..... Lady Q
Roy Meredith ..... Viscount de Tournay
Tarva Penna
Robert Rietty ..... Boy
Bill Shine ..... An Aristocrat
Douglas Stewart ..... Merieres
Philip Strange ..... Member of the League
Harry Terry ..... Renad
Evan Thomas ..... Member of the League
Alfred Wellesley
Edmund Willard ..... Bibot - Republican Officer
Brember Wills ..... Doman
Millicent Wolf

Synopsis:

Pimpernel' Smith: 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 a sole rescuer. As such, the Nazis have begun to round up such men who have remained in Germany to house them in concentration camps as enemies of the Reich, all this information quashed by the Ministry of Propaganda. Meanwhile, Horatio Smith, a mild-mannered, pacifistic, often absent-minded and seemingly misogynistic Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge University, has recruited six of his male students to accompany him to Germany on his latest three-month post-term expedition into his research of whether an Aryan race did ever exist in Central Europe, work supported by the German government. What they and everyone else is unaware of is that Smith is that rescuer, this trip to Germany just a cover for his latest mission to free whoever needs to be freed from the Nazis. He realizes that his outward demeanor to the world makes him the perfect person for such work in no one ever suspecting him. He wants to retain his secret identity as the rescuer as the fewer people who know or need to know, the safer it is for all concerned. Coinciding with Smith's expedition, Nazi General von Graum, who is leading the investigation into the escapes, believes the rescuer is not only British, but will be attending a reception at the British Embassy in Berlin. As such, he enlists the assistance of a young woman by the name of Ludmilla Kohls to help identify the perpetrator at the reception, she who he is certain can and will assist and may be more perceptive about such matters to Smith's detriment than von Graum, he suspecting the typical strong, masculine type. The Scarlet Pimpernel: London fop Percy Blakeney is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who, in a variety of disguises, makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristocrats from Madame Guillotine. His unknowing wife is also French, and she finds that her brother has been arrested by the Republic to try to get her to find out who 'that damned elusive Pimpernel' really is.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 25 March, 2024.