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‘Pimpernel’ Smith (1941) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
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- 1941 · 120 mins · English
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- Starring
- Francis L. Sullivan, Leslie Howard, Raymond Huntley, Mary Morris, Irene Handl, Sebastian Cabot
An eccentric Cambridge archaeologist, Horatio Smith, leads a band of British and American archaeology students into pre‑war Nazi Germany under the guise of excavating Aryan origins for the regime. While the Nazis back his research, Smith covertly works to rescue concentration‑camp prisoners, making him the Gestapo’s most hated man.
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