Pimpinela Smith

Pimpinela Smith (1941)

"Pimpernel" Smith

Europa, 1939. Alemania y Gran Bretaña se encuentran a punto de enfrentarse en una nueva guerra. El profesor Horatio Smith viaja con sus estudiantes a la Europa continental para participar en una excavación arqueológica, pero cuando sus alumnos descubran que lo que busca Smith es construir un camino que facilite la huida a los enemigos del nazismo, lo apoyarán con más ahínco. Sin embargo, el plan se complica cuando un estudiante introduzca en el grupo a una misteriosa mujer que resulta ser una espía de la Gestapo. (FILMAFFINITY)

Fecha de estreno
1941-07-28
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (32)
Duración
2 h 0 min
Géneros
Aventura, Drama, Suspense
Director
Leslie Howard

Reparto

Curiosidades

  • Basada en: La Pimpinela Escarlata

"Pimpernel" Smith 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 British Film Yearbook for 1945 described his work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda".

Production

Leslie Howard had been aware of the Nazis in Europe and had developed a film treatment in 1938 based on the rescue of an Austrian anti-Nazi leader. The A. G. Macdonell story of "Pimpernel" Smith took the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy into modern times.

Having played the leading role in the film The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), Howard took on the updated project as the first film he directed and co-produced.

Howard formed his own company to make the movie and raised finance through British National. It was called "British National's most ambitious production to date."

In September 1940 Howard tried to get permission from Sam Goldwyn to use David Niven in the lead.

Production on "Pimpernel" Smith began in early 1941.

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