O Professor Smith

O Professor Smith (1941)

"Pimpernel" Smith

O Homem que a Gestapo odeia!

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.

Data de estreia
1941-07-28
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (32)
Duração
2 h 1 min
Géneros
Aventura, Drama, Thriller
Realizador
Leslie Howard

Elenco

Curiosidades

  • Baseado em: Pimpinela Escarlate

"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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