With England embroiled in war in the early 1940s, Leslie Howard turned his talents toward wartime fare, including Pimpernel Smith (1941), for which he wore three hats: actor, director and producer.

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, ...

When Pimpernel Smith reached Sweden in late 1943, the Swedish Film Censorship Board banned it from public screening, wary that its openly anti‑Nazi stance might jeopardise the fragile, carefully ...

Leslie Howard stars as Professor Horatio Smith, a seemingly bookish educator, who performs a rescue mission during WWII. Under the guise of an archaeology trip, Smith infiltrates Nazi Germany, with ...