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'Pimpernel' Smith

Year:
Duration:
120 min
Genres:
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | War
IMDB rate:
7.4
Director:
Leslie Howard
Awards:
1 win
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 1941-07-28
Filming Locations: D&P Studios, Denham Studio, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Cast
Actor
Character
Allan Jeayes
Dr Benckendorf
Peter Gawthorne
Sidimir Koslowski
Ernest Butcher
Weber
Ben Williams
Graubitz
Leslie Howard
Professor Horatio Smith
Arthur Hambling
Jordan
Joan Kemp-Welch
School-Teacher
Hugh McDermott
David Maxwell (as Hugh Macdermott in opening credits)
Manning Whiley
Bertie Gregson
Philip Friend
Spencer
Basil Appleby
Jock MacIntyre
Laurence Kitchin
Clarence Elstead (as Lawrence Kitchen)
Mary Brown
Girl Student
Aubrey Mallalieu
Dean
W. Phillips
Innkeeper
Ilse Bard
Gretchen
Ernest Verne
German Officer
George Street
Schmidt
Raymond Huntley
Marx
Dennis Arundell
Hoffman
Francis L. Sullivan
General von Graum (as Francis Sullivan)
Hector Abbas
Karl Meyer
Neal Arden
Second Prisoner (as Neil Arden)
Richard George
Prison Guard
Roddy Hughes
Zigor
Hugh Pryse
Wagner (as Hwfa Pryce)
Roland Pertwee
Embassy Official - Sir George Smith
Oriel Ross
Lady Willoughby
Mary Morris
Ludmilla Koslowski
A.E. Matthews
Earl of Meadowbrook (as A. E. Matthews)
Percy Walsh
Dvorak
Bryan Herbert
Jaromir (as Brian Herbert)
Suzanne Clair
Salesgirl (as Suzanne Claire)
Charles Paton
Steinhof
Michael Brennan
Camp Guard with Lantern (uncredited)
Elwyn Brook-Jones
Bit Part (uncredited)
Sebastian Cabot
Bit Role (uncredited)
Peter Cozens
Man (uncredited)
Arthur Denton
Gestapo Man Following Smith (uncredited)
Irene Handl
Bit Part (uncredited)
Vincent Holman
Doctor at Diggings (uncredited)
Stuart Latham
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Michael Rennie
Prison Camp Officer (uncredited)
Charles Rolfe
German Officer at Customs (uncredited)
John Slater
Reporter (uncredited)
Harry Terry
Camp Guard (uncredited)
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Trivia
Winston Churchill showed this movie to officers and other guests on board the battleship Prince of Wales in August 1941 as the ship sped across the North Atlantic en route to Churchill's historic meeting with Franklin Roosevelt in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, culminating in the Atlantic Charter.
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One of the earliest movies to openly and unflinchingly discuss Nazi labor, concentration, and death camps.
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The statue known as Aphrodite Kallipygos (also known as the Callipygian Venus), has the literal meaning "Venus (or Aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks," is an actual Ancient Roman marble statue, which is probably a copy of an even older Greek original, lost to the passages of time, probably made of bronze.
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Goofs
Although Professor Smith's first name is Horatio, in several scenes he is called Horace, by his brother, and others. Horace would be correct for someone called Horatio, that most famous one called Nelson, was as a child called Horace, this is well documented.
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At the reception in the English embassy, Professor Smith misquotes Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky. He mispronounces "borogoves" in the third line of the poem as "borogroves".
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Quotes
Professor Horatio Smith: [under the guise of being Herr Boldenschatz] You know, the trouble with you propaganda boys, you've got so used to telling lies you don't recognize the truth when you hear it.
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Professor Horatio Smith: Don't worry, I shall be back.
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David Maxwell: Archeologists are always a thousand years behind the times.
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