“Pimpernel” Smith (1941) – Leslie Howard

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Starring, directed by, and produced by my dearest darling Leslie Howard.
This film reportedly inspired the heroic actions of Raoul Wallenberg.
Apologies for the quality – this is all I have at the moment.

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29 Replies to ““Pimpernel” Smith (1941) – Leslie Howard”

  3. Virginia Hall was wanted by the Abwehr/Gestapo,she was the no 1 SOE Spy in France. A brave woman.See the book a "Woman of No Importance"by Sonia Purnell.Incredible woman.

  5. First class performance by Leslie Howard and all the team who produced this classic, actors, script writers, film crew to tea boy. Thank you for posting this.

  7. comments always say, greatest actors ever, films today are absolute shit, Love this movie, such a talent, what a great movie.
    50 years from now the comments will say the movies in 2020 were the best and the 2070 movies are shit.

  12. I Love All of his movies and have for years ,,, but he slipped down a notch or three on the Admiration ladder when I read about his personal life…

  16. Quintessential English…..the stereotypes are rather corny but somehow the acting and script are so effective that the whole piece shines like a gem.

  17. I have just watched this 2 days before the UK General Election. It is remarkable how this resonates with our likely lurch to an elected dictatorship and the lust for un-costrained power. However, the great message is that 'we will all be back'. There is hope.

  18. when you think about it, this was a film where in normal times was about the upper class and the intellectuals. and the ways of the privileged.

    in a time when so many ordinary working class boys were being killed on the front line, it should have been greeted by howls of derision. They are drinking champagne and living the life of lords in Germany.

    But what made this film so acceptable was that in the Battle of Britain, it was the so called upper classes who got up in the skies and gave a good account of themselves, and made the sacrifice.

    And it led to the belief that the intellectuals had an important role to play, whereas both Hitler and Stalin sought to liquidate their own intellectuals.

  20. The real truth is the ones who Demoralized and corrupted a nation is Zionist propaganda holly-pedowood …They corrupted Germany and all the National socialists did was make them pay for it…Meanwhile, actor Howard chose a vocation as a slacker actor to inject protocol propaganda into the WW 2 War that the Rothschild Bankers started for profit and gain…

  23. Wonderful film. Thank you for sharing. A great actor who, like David Niven, gave up a great Hollywood career to come back to England and fight against tyranny the best way he could. His final speech in this film was very prophetic given that this was released in 1941 when the war was very much in the balance. So sad that the Nazis got him in the end. RIP to a great actor and human being

  24. You might like to know Leslie was actually shot down and killed by a German fighter plane in England while he was flying a private biplane!![

  29. Pimpernel's overt sexism was counter to the freedom and democracy he preached. However, this movie still holds valuable lessons about freedom of speech and the value of journalism. Let this be a warning to present day America, where our highest leader calls the free press the enemy of the state. That should serve as a fire alarm to every last citizen. The only people in power who go after journalists are autocrats, fascist and dictators. If we don't learn the lessons of the past, we are doomed to repeat them.

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