Pimpernel Smith (1941)
- Starring:
- Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, (more)
- Director(s):
- Leslie Howard
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Synopsis of Pimpernel Smith
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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Pimpernel Smith
- Leslie Howard - Prof. Horatio Smith
- Mary Morris - Ludmilla Koslowski
- Raymond Huntley - Marx
- Dennis Arundell - Hoffman
- Allan Jeayes - Dr. Beckendorf
- Hugh McDermott - David Maxwell
- Percy Walsh - Dvorak
- Brian Herbert - Jaromir
- Ernest Butcher - Weber
- Lawrence Kitchen - Clarence Elstead
- Ben Williams - Graubitz
- Ronald Howard
- Charles Paton - Steinhof
- Joan Kemp-Welch - Teacher
- Richard George - Prison Guard
- Francis L. Sullivan - Gen. von Graum
- Peter Gawthorne - Sidimir Koslowski
- Hector Abbas - Karl Meyer
- Elwyn Brook-Jones
- Aubrey Mallalieu - Dean
- Oriel Ross - Lady Willoughby
- Arthur Hambling - Jordan
- George Street - Schmidt
- Roland Pertwee - Sir George Smith
- Basil Appleby - Jock McIntyre
- Manning Whiley - Bertie Gregson
- David Tomlinson - Steve
- A.E. Matthews - Earl of Meadowbrook
- Phillip Friend - Spencer
- Roddy Hughes - Zigor
- Director(s):
- Leslie Howard
- Writer(s):
- Anatole de Grunwald, Ian Dalrymple, Roland Pertwee
- Producer(s):
- Leslie Howard
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