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"Pimpernel" Smith

"Pimpernel" Smith

★ 7,1 /10 (32 Votes)
1941 EN 120 min

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 inmates of the concentration camps.

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Release date

28/07/1941

Votes

32

Popularity

0.8

The man the Gestapo hates!

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

120 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2022-06-25

⭐ 7

Leslie Howard is on good form here as the outwardly fastidious academic with a secret to keep. He decides to offer some of his students an holiday trip to Germany (just the boys!) so they can try to establish once and for all whether there was an "Aryan" race there. Quickly we discover he also has an hand in rescuing many creative and scientifically minded for the evil clutch of the Nazis and their chocolate eating boss "General von Graum" (Francis L. Sullivan). As the students get in on the act, it's the American "David" (Hugh McDermott) who is most itching for action and it's also him who fa…

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