Pimpernel Smith

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Pimpernel Smith is a 1941 British anti-Nazi thriller film starring Leslie Howard as an archaeology professor who secretly rescues victims of persecution from Nazi Germany.

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instanceOf British film
anti-Nazi film
film
thriller film
war film
alsoKnownAs M. V.
Mister V
basedOn The Scarlet Pimpernel
character Professor Horatio Smith
cinematographyBy Mutz Greenbaum
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
director Leslie Howard
distributor Anglo-American Film Corporation
editedBy Jack Dennis
filmingLocation Denham Film Studios
surface form: Denham Studios
genre propaganda film
thriller
war
influence inspired resistance figures and anti-Nazi sentiment during World War II
inspiredBy The Scarlet Pimpernel
surface form: Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel stories
leadActorRole Leslie Howard
surface form: Leslie Howard as Professor Horatio Smith
musicBy John Greenwood
notableFor early explicit anti-Nazi stance in British cinema
updating the Scarlet Pimpernel concept to the Second World War context
originalLanguage English
plotSummary An eccentric archaeology professor secretly rescues victims of Nazi persecution from Germany.
portrays underground rescue operations in Nazi-controlled Europe
producer Leslie Howard
productionCompany British National Films
releaseDate 1941-07-12
releaseYear 1941
runtimeMinutes 120
screenwriter Arthur Wimperis
Leslie Howard
setDuring World War II
surface form: Second World War
setting Nazi Germany
pre-war Europe
starring Allan Jeayes
Francis L. Sullivan
Hugh McDermott
Leslie Howard
Mary Morris
targetOfCensorship Nazi Germany
theme anti-totalitarianism
rescue of persecuted people
resistance to Nazism

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Leslie Howard directed Pimpernel Smith