Pimpernel Smith is a 1941 adventure film, directed by and starring Leslie Howard, which updates The Scarlet Pimpernel story from Revolutionary France to pre-World War II Europe.
The film features an early screen appearance by David Tomlinson.
This movie is notable for helping to inspire Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg to mount a real-life rescue operation in Budapest that, conservatively estimated, saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from...
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Pimpernel Smith is a 1941 adventure film, directed by and starring Leslie Howard, which updates The Scarlet Pimpernel story from Revolutionary France to pre-World War II Europe.
The film features an early screen appearance by David Tomlinson.
This movie is notable for helping to inspire Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg to mount a real-life rescue operation in Budapest that, conservatively estimated, saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi concentration camps during the last months of World War II.
In the days leading up to World War II, a seemingly absent-minded archeology professor, Horatio Smith (Howard), saves people from the Gestapo. During one such daring rescue, he disguises himself as a scarecrow in a field and is inadvertently shot by a German soldier idly engaging in a bit of target practice. Later, his students guess his secret when they read about the wound in a newspaper. They enthusiastically volunteer to assist him.
German General von Graum (Sullivan) is...
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