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Pimpernel Smith. Available on iTunes. An absent-minded professor on an archaeological dig is actually a dashing agent rescuing refugees from the clutches of Nazi officers. Drama 1941 2 hr 2 min.
Pimpernel Smith (1941) was the first of three propaganda films that Howard directed, followed by the equally laudable The First of the Few (1942) and The Gentle Sex (1943). Although it is far more subtle than most wartime propaganda films of this era, Pimpernel Smith left its audience in no doubt as to the nature and magnitude of the threat posed by Nazi Germany in the early 1940s.
Professor Horatio Smith, an effete academic, asks his students to come with him to the continent to engage in an archaeological dig. When his students discover that the professor is the man responsible for smuggling a number of enemies of the Nazi state out of Germany, they enthusiastically join him in his fight, but things get complicated when ...
(The reverse goes for Smith's absent-mindedness, which, unlike the foppish banality of the original Pimpernel's alter-ego, is both genuine and intended for our approval.) In a final speech that predicts Hitler's inexorable march toward hubristic self-destruction with striking prescience, Smith explains that it is the fact that the fascist mentality mistakes these strengths for weaknesses that ...
24. Jan. 2021 · Pimpernel Smith (1941) 01/24/2021 | 1h 55m 55s |. My List. Seemingly mild-mannered archaeology professor (Leslie Howard) travels to Nazi Germany to do research on the Aryan culture. His real goal ...
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One such film was Pimpernel Smith in which Howard plays Archeology Professor Horatio Smith who doubles as a British spy, undertaking to help refugees escape from the Gestapo. Based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy and modeled after the 1934 film of the same name, Pimpernel Smith is said to have influenced Raoul Wallenberg, known for his heroism in rescuing Hungarian ...
10. Sept. 2012 · Deftly directed and imaginatively edited, the film may nevertheless be just too restrained and Anglo-Saxon for its own good (especially Howard's characterisation of the absent-minded archaeology ...
