Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Pimpernel Smith / British National Films Limited presents a Leslie Howard production ; screen play, Anatole De Grunwald ; produced and directed by Leslie Howard.

Publisher, Date:

[Chicago, Ill.] : Olive Films, [2016]

Description:

1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Summary:

Mid-1939, both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict. Professor Horatio Smith asks his students to come with him to engage in an archaeological dig in Germany. When his students discover that the professor is the man responsible for smuggling a number of enemies of the Nazi state out of Germany, they join him in his fight. However, things get complicated when one of his students brings a mysterious woman into their circle, whom is secretly working for the Gestapo.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Archaeology teachers -- Drama.

Archaeologists -- Drama.

Espionage, British -- Germany -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama.

Nazi concentration camp escapes -- Germany -- Drama.

Anti-Nazi movement -- Drama.

Nazis -- Drama.

Genre:

Spy films.