‘Pimpernel’ Smith
Spring, 1939. It is frustrating for the Nazis that many German citizens and foreigners have refused to work for them. However, they have been able to flee the country using unknown rescuers, or possibly a single rescuer. The Nazis are now trying to find such people who were not in Germany and to put them into concentration camps. All this information was quashed in the Ministry of Propaganda. At Cambridge University’s Professor of Archaeology, Horatio Smith is a calm-mannered, peaceful, sometimes absent-minded, and apparently misogynistic professor of archaeology. He has invited six of his male students along to Germany for his third post-term trip into the research of whether there was ever an Aryan population in Central Europe. This work was supported by Germany’s government. They and others are unaware that Smith is the rescuer. This trip to Germany was just to cover his new mission to liberate anyone from Nazis. Smith realizes his exterior demeanor makes him the ideal person to do such work, and no one will ever suspect him. Because he wants his identity to remain secret as the rescuer, it’s safer for everyone. Nazi General von Graum is the one who will lead the probe into Smith’s escape. He believes that the rescuer may not be British but will attend a reception at Berlin’s British Embassy. He asks Ludmilla Kohls, a young female, to assist him in identifying the culprit at the reception. She is more perceptive than von Graum and could be able to identify Smith’s true identity. –Huggo
Director: Leslie Howard
Actors: Francis L. Sullivan, Hugh McDermott, Leslie Howard, Manning Whiley, Mary Morris, Peter Gawthorne, Raymond Huntley
Country: United Kingdom
