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The Anti-Nazi Film Made Possible By A "Gone With The Wind" Contractual Obligation! Leslie Howard's 1941 Recreation Of "The Scarlet Pimpernel"! *Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD, MP4 Video Download Or USB Flash Drive! (Black/White, 2 Hours 10 Minutes.) #PimpernelSmith #LeslieHoward #Actors #Authors #Journalists #Directors #Producers #BOACFlight777 #BayOfBiscay #WorldWarII #WWII #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #WorldWar2 #SecondWorldWar #SecondEuropeanWar #EuropeanCivilWar #Stage #Theater #Theatre #Movies #Film #MotionPictures #BritishCinema #CinemaOfTheUK #Hollywood #ClassicHollywoodCinema #ClassicalHollywoodCinema #ClassicalHollywoodNarrative #GoldenAgeOfHollywood #OldHollywood #SilverScreen #DVD #VideoDownload #MP4 #USBFlashDrive
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Leslie Howard is one of those rare individuals for whom one's principles were as important as life itself or anything in it. In his life, fame and success were his in good measure, but he consistently chose to work those projects that he felt were worthy rather than those that were strictly lucrative. When he was called upon to perform the role of Ashley Wilkes in Gone With The Wind, he was very reticent to accept, and when he did so it was in large part dependent on his being given the money and resources to make Pimpernel Smith as a weapon in the propaganda war against Nazi Germany. Pimpernel Smith reprises Howard's celebrated role as The Scarlet Pimpernel, only in this drama he's a Professor of Archaeology who spirits the great and the good of Germany away from the clutches of the Gestapo. Howard's film, as well as his The First Of The Few aka Spitfire!, were very effective propaganda weapons, so much so that in 1943 the Germans hunted him down over neutral airspace in the Bay of Biscayne and shot down the passenger liner in which they knew he was a passenger.
Producer/Director:
Leslie Howard
Screenplay:
Anatole de Grunwald
Musical Direction:
Muir Mathieson
Cast:
Leslie Howard .... Professor Horatio Smith
Francis Sullivan .... General von Graum
Mary Morris .... Ludmilla Koslowski
Michael Rennie .... Guard Captain (uncredited)
"Pimpernel" Smith (released in the USA as Mister V) is a 1941 British anti-Nazi thriller, 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 Scarlet Pimpernel is based on novels of Baroness Emma Orczy, establishing the "hero with a secret identity" in popular culture.) The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described his work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda". 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.
The Anti-Nazi Film Made Possible By A "Gone With The Wind" Contractual Obligation! Leslie Howard's 1941 Recreation Of "The Scarlet Pimpernel"! *Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD, MP4 Video Download Or USB Flash Drive! (Black/White, 2 Hours 10 Minutes.) #PimpernelSmith #LeslieHoward #Actors #Authors #Journalists #Directors #Producers #BOACFlight777 #BayOfBiscay #WorldWarII #WWII #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #WorldWar2 #SecondWorldWar #SecondEuropeanWar #EuropeanCivilWar #Stage #Theater #Theatre #Movies #Film #MotionPictures #BritishCinema #CinemaOfTheUK #Hollywood #ClassicHollywoodCinema #ClassicalHollywoodCinema #ClassicalHollywoodNarrative #GoldenAgeOfHollywood #OldHollywood #SilverScreen #DVD #VideoDownload #MP4 #USBFlashDrive
Contents:
Leslie Howard is one of those rare individuals for whom one's principles were as important as life itself or anything in it. In his life, fame and success were his in good measure, but he consistently chose to work those projects that he felt were worthy rather than those that were strictly lucrative. When he was called upon to perform the role of Ashley Wilkes in Gone With The Wind, he was very reticent to accept, and when he did so it was in large part dependent on his being given the money and resources to make Pimpernel Smith as a weapon in the propaganda war against Nazi Germany. Pimpernel Smith reprises Howard's celebrated role as The Scarlet Pimpernel, only in this drama he's a Professor of Archaeology who spirits the great and the good of Germany away from the clutches of the Gestapo. Howard's film, as well as his The First Of The Few aka Spitfire!, were very effective propaganda weapons, so much so that in 1943 the Germans hunted him down over neutral airspace in the Bay of Biscayne and shot down the passenger liner in which they knew he was a passenger.
Producer/Director:
Leslie Howard
Screenplay:
Anatole de Grunwald
Musical Direction:
Muir Mathieson
Cast:
Leslie Howard .... Professor Horatio Smith
Francis Sullivan .... General von Graum
Mary Morris .... Ludmilla Koslowski
Michael Rennie .... Guard Captain (uncredited)
"Pimpernel" Smith (released in the USA as Mister V) is a 1941 British anti-Nazi thriller, 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 Scarlet Pimpernel is based on novels of Baroness Emma Orczy, establishing the "hero with a secret identity" in popular culture.) The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described his work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda". 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.