| "Pimpernel" Smith | |
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 Original theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | Leslie Howard |
| Written by | A. G. Macdonell |
| Screenplay by | Anatole de Grunwald Ian Dalrymple (uncredited) |
| Story by | A. G. Macdonell Wolfgang Wilhelm |
| Based on | "'Pimpernel' Smith" (story) by
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| Produced by | Leslie Howard Harold Huth (associate) |
| Starring | Leslie Howard Francis L. Sullivan Mary Morris |
| Cinematography | Mutz Greenbaum |
| Edited by | Sidney Cole Douglas Myers |
| Music by | John Greenwood |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Anglo-American Film Corporation (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
"Pimpernel" Smith (released in the US as Mister V) is a 1941 British anti-Nazi thriller,[1] produced and directed by its star Leslie Howard, which updates his role in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) from Revolutionary France to pre-Second World War Europe. The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described his work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda".[2]
The film helped to inspire the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg to lead a real-life rescue operation in Budapest that saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi concentration camps during the last months of the Second World War.[3][4]
- ^ "'Pimpernel' Smith (1940)." The Monthly Film Bulletin, Volume 8, No.91, July 1941.
- ^ Noble 1945, p. 74.
- ^ Linnéa 1993, p. 27.
- ^ Hastings, Max (14 February 2016). "Raoul Wallenberg by Ingrid Carlberg". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved 16 September 2024.