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'Pimpernel' Smith

Where:

🇩🇪 Germany

When:

The 1930s

The man the Gestapo hates! — Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith (Howard) 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.

Released in 1941 — 120 minutes

Genres:

Adventure Thriller

Languages:

English Italian