Pimpernel Smith

Leslie Howard - Professor Horatio Smith
Francis L. Sullivan - General von Graum
Mary Morris Ludmilla - Koslowski
Hugh McDermott - David Maxwell
Raymond Huntley - Marx
Manning Whiley - Bertie Gregson
Peter Gawthorne - Sidimir Koslowski
Allan Jeayes - Dr. Beckendorf
Dennis Arundell - Hoffman
Philip Friend - Spencer
Laurence Kitchin - Clarence Elstead
David Tomlinson - Steve
Basil Appleby - Jock MacIntyre
Percy Walsh - Dvorak
Roland Pertwee - Sir George Smith
A.E. Matthews - Earl of Meadowbrook

Starring and directed by Leslie Howard, Pimpernel Smith updates the Scarlet Pimpernel legend from Paris to World War II Europe. Under the guise of an absent-minded university professor, Horatio Smith (Leslie Howard), helps refugees escape from the Gestapo. After he is wounded during a phoney archaeological 'dig' for Aryan artefacts near the Swiss border, the professor’s students realise his true identity and help him rescue further people from behind Nazi-occupied territories. Smith later goes alone to Berlin to bring out Ludmilla Koslowski (Mary Morris), a young girl who is helping the Nazis to (she thinks) save her father, and succeeds. The climatic final scenes involve a game of cat-and-mouse between Smith and his Gestapo adversary General Von Graum (Francis L. Sullivan), who has been instructed to track down the professor.