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Binding: DVD
EAN: 0131111111436
Feature: Studio: Earthstation1.com
Format: Black & White
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 2007
Running Time: 130 minutes
Sales Rank: 93418
Theatrical Release Date: 1941
Features:- Studio: Earthstation1.com
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Product Description:
The 'Scarlet Pimpernel' legend is updated to WW2 in the breathless actioner Pimpernel Smith. Leslie Howard (who also directed) plays bespectacled and seemingly mild-mannered Professor Smith, who under cover of darkness transforms into a tireless defender of democracy. With the help of several loyal companions, Smith makes several forays into Nazi-occupied territories to rescue the oppressed victims of the Third Reich, using a phony archeological expedition to throw the villains off the track. The picture really roars into life during the cat-and-mouse exchanges between the Professor and his Gestapo antagonist Von Graum, phlegmatically enacted by the corpulent Francis L. Sullivan. In some markets, Pimpernel Smith was retitled Mister V.
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Rating: - "I guess you're one of the goodest guys in Creation."
Long before Indiana Jones, there was another dashing archaelogy professor who fought the Nazis. PIMPERNEL SMITH, released in 1941 and alternately titled MISTER V, is an updating of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, with the backdrop of the French Revolution being swapped for that of pre-World War II Europe.
Berlin, during the spring of 1939, and rumors rage up and down the Third Reich, of an uncatchable mystery man who boldly rescues eminent artists and intellectuals from Gestapo persecution and ... Read More
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