Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1941-07-28) |
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| Awards: | 1 win |
| Screen: | Anatole de Grunwald, A.G. Macdonell, Wolfgang Wilhelm |
| Productions: | British National Films |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Italiano |
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- 11493: Leslie Howard - Professor Horatio Smith
- 93900: Francis L. Sullivan - General von Graum
- 568361: Mary Morris - Ludmilla Koslowski
- 91361: Hugh McDermott - David Maxwell
- 87071: Raymond Huntley - Marx
- 938199: Manning Whiley - Bertie Gregson
- 97217: Peter Gawthorne - Sidimir Koslowski
Crews
- 11493: Leslie Howard - Director - Directing
- 119322: Anatole de Grunwald - Screenplay - Writing
- 37865: Mutz Greenbaum - Technical Supervisor - Crew
- 11118: George Pollock - Assistant Director - Directing
- 11493: Leslie Howard - Producer - Production
- 929205: Roland Pertwee - Scenario Writer - Writing
- 49289: Wolfgang Wilhelm - Original Story - Writing
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Leslie Howard updated his 1934 role as Baroness Orczy's "Scarlet Pimpernel" in this classy wartime drama. As Professor Horatio Smith, he portrays the archetypal English book-worm professor ostensibly looking for evidence of a German Aryan civilisation, but actually smuggling out POWs ....
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