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'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' is a British 1941 anti-Nazi thriller, produced and directed by its star [[Leslie Howard]], which updates his role in the 1934 film ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (film)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' from Revolutionary France to pre-World War II Europe. The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described his work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda". The film is also notable for helping to inspire Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg to mount his real-life rescue operation in Budapest that saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi concentration camps during the last months of World War II.
[https://archive.org/details/PimpernelSmith Watch or download it at archive.org].
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{{quote|'''Professor Horatio Smith''': No, I hate violence. It seems such a paradox to kill a man before you can persuade him what's right. So uncivilized.}}
* [[La Résistance]]
* [[Leitmotif]]: Smith likes to whistle a tune called '[[w:There
* [[Man in a Kilt]]: Jock MacIntyre
* [[Master of Disguise]]: Prof. Horatio Smith.
* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Clarence, who gets no respect and suffers a bit of good-natured ribbing from his friends about his stutter.
* [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]]: All the actors playing German and Nazi soldiers sound as if they have just walked off the
* [[Reality Subtext]]: Leslie Howard died two years after finishing the film, when [[w:BOAC Flight 777|BOAC Flight 777]] was shot down. Also on the flight was Wilfrid Israel, who saved more than 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and Austria.
* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Prof. Smith has a talent for this. It's frequently mentioned and/or demonstrated, and it's also {{spoiler|how Smith escapes across the border at the end of the film.}}
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