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
- 1627173: John Dennis - Sound Recordist - Sound
- 11493: Leslie Howard - Producer - Production
- 49289: Wolfgang Wilhelm - Original Story - Writing
- 39055: Muir Mathieson - Music Director - Sound
- 960844: A.W. Watkins - Recording Supervision - Sound
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Leslie Howard is on good form here as the outwardly fastidious academic with a secret to keep. He decides to offer some of his students an holiday trip to Germany (just the boys!) so they can try to establish once and for all whether there was an "Aryan" race there. Quickly we discov ....
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