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 : Pimpernel Smith





Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304628157
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6304628153
Label: Hollywood Select Video
Manufacturer: Hollywood Select Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hollywood Select Video
Release Date: August 21, 1997
Running Time: 120 minutes
Studio: Hollywood Select Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1941
Sales Rank: 1748




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This 1941 update of The Scarlet Pimpernel finds British actor Leslie Howard reinventing one of his most popular characters as an absent-minded archaeology professor ingeniously smuggling victims of Nazi oppression out of Germany. Howard (Gone with the Wind), who left Hollywood to return to his native country during World War II, also directed this taut, entertaining adventure in a patriotic vein, including scenes in which his charismatic hero scientifically debunks the myth of Aryan superiority. Directed with a deft touch and edited for maximum excitement, Pimpernel Smith is at the very least an equal to Howard's 1935 version of The Scarlet Pimpernel (directed by Harold Young), and in some ways it is technically superior. An offbeat, unlikely piece of morale boosting during a terrible time, Pimpernel Smith is a pure pleasure. --Tom Keogh



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Leslie Howard, master filmmaker
Pimpernel Smith is one of Leslie Howards last films before his untimely death during WWII. Howard was reaching his prime as an actor, a director and a producer. This film, in which Howard is the star as well as director and producer, is a delight to watch, creating suspense and a slow build to excitement. It is not an "in your face" film, but rather a slower moving but cleverly written indictment against the Nazis who, by this time, had been bombing England for over a year.
Clever writing, ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - An Excellent WWII Update Of The Scarlet Pimpernel Story, With Leslie Howard
Note that elements of the plot are discussed. It's summer, 1939, in Germany. On a Nazi work farm, elderly prisoners are using primitive hoes and shovels to dig up a field. Strutting around them is a guard carrying a rifle and a whip. Nearby a scarecrow with a burlap face and straw sticking out of its gloves is tied to a post. "Stop talking," the guard snarls. He raises his rifle and points it at one of the prisoners, a man who had been a famous pianist. The prisoners cower and the guard laughs as ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent WWII-Era Retelling of The Scarlet Pimpernel
A&E used to show this old movie every so often; the print was in awful condition and yet, despite its technical difficulties, Pimpernel Smith was a compelling film. It was Leslie Howard's final film, his own personal project, an anti-Nazi propaganda piece designed to shore up his battered country's courage and offer hope to his beloved nation. That it no doubt did, and yet Pimpernel Smith succeeds as a stand-alone movie and is in some ways superior to Howard's earlier turn as The Scarlet Pimpernel. ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Leslie Howard, Auteur
We're used to thinking of "personal films" as something modern; this one is sixty years old, and it's very personal. In 1939, fresh from Gone with the Wind, LH could have done anything he wanted -- but Hitler was bombing his country, and he went home to fight the war. It's safe to say he had the final word on the screenplay: an update of one of his most famous characters, the Scarlet Pimpernel. He is now smuggling intellectuals out of Germany, under cover of being an archeology professor too absent ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Leslie Howard's Tribute to English Values
Sink me! This is a deucedly entertaining play on the 1934 original. A heroic archeologist battling Nazis? Sounds vaguely familiar - I can't help but wonder whether George Lucas may have seen this film as a child. This is a wonderful, heartfelt wartime propaganda film.

Howard strikes just the right light note as the English academic whose true calling is the rescue of politically oppressed individuals. Howard, that most English of actors, was (believe it or not) Hungarian by birth, and ... Read More



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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304628157
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6304628153
Label: Hollywood Select Video
Manufacturer: Hollywood Select Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hollywood Select Video
Release Date: August 21, 1997
Running Time: 120 minutes
Studio: Hollywood Select Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1941
Sales Rank: 1748
  
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