Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery.
During World War II, Helmut Dantine specialized in playing villainous Nazis in Hollywood melodramas. He offers a compelling performance in a variation of these earlier roles in this suspense filled and politically loaded tale of intrigue.
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill.
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker.
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"You're Doomed" - Pimpernel Smith monologue
Prof. Horatio Smith confronts Gen. Von Graum with "You're Doomed" monologue. Brains Over Brawn Integrity over Violence Scholarship over Arms Britain over ...
Pimpernel Smith
The British have NO sense of humour.
Leslie Howard - "Pimpernel Smith" clip
A video tribute. I just love this film. Please comment. The song is "Dog Days Are Over" by Florence And The Machine. I don't own the rights of the film nor of the ...
Pimpernel Smith monologue
Astonishing how forseeing this Monologue is even today when different groups and countries still have the ambition to rule the world.
Pimpernel Smith Carriage Boarding Scene
Pure acting genius.
You Are Doomed - Pimpernel Smith and his message to the Nazis (with music)
Pimpernel Smith's "You're Doomed" speech From one of Leslie Howard's films that centered around heightening public enthusiasm in regard to beating the ...
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Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.
The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone in a fishermen's village.
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands.
In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in trouble when a radio sponsor finds himself accused of kidnapping a girl.
This short starts out as a documentary. In a dramatization, Eadward Muybridge's photographic experiments prove that when a horse gallops, there are times when all four of the animal's feet are off the ground.
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