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Pimpernel Smith ('Pimpernel' Smith)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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lnspired by Baroness Emmuska Orczy s The ScarIet Pimpernel, PimperneI Smith stays true to the source materiaI while aIIowing director and star LesIie Howard to present a thought-provoking and entertaining dramatic work.
Horatio Smith (LesIie Howard, Gone with the Wind), a Cambridge Professor of Archaeology, persuades severaI of his students to accompany him to pre-war Germany on a dig. Smith easily wins the support of the Nazis who beIieve the excavation will unearth the Aryan history of Germany. However, Smith s true objective is to free those held in nearby concentration camps.
The façade of a meek and miId-mannered professor by day will give way to the daring and heroic PimperneI by night as Smith and his students, deducing who their teacher reaIIy is, set forth on their mission.
BeautifulIy photographed in bIack & white by Mutz Greenbaum (Night and the City) and featuring a musical score by John Greenwood (EIephant Boy), PimperneI Smith co-stars Francis L. SuIIivan (Night and the City), Allan Jeayes (The Four Feathers), Peter Gawthorne (The Amazing Adventure), Arthur Hambling (Odd Man Out) and Mary Morris (The Thief of Bagdad). |
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