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.
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.
Alternative movies trailers for "Pimpernel" Smith
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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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FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship.
A man murdered at the Saint's doorstep manages to utter a few words to Simon Templar before he dies, sending him off to the quaint resort village of Baycombe where he confronts crime mastermind 'The Tiger' and his gang as they plan to smuggle gold bullion out of the country.
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.
When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover old-fashioned family values.
Switzerland in the 13th century: Shot in the middle of World War II, this classic film returns to the origins of Switzerland and turns about the problem of the small country against a big power: Resist or obey?
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.
