How could England have won the war without him? Horatio Smith sneaks about in Nazi Germany, liberating concentration camp inmates right under the noses of the Gestapo. Leslie Howard directed and stars in this wartime escapist spy thriller, as a witty professor too passive to be suspected as the mystery spy.
‘Pimpernel’ Smith
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1941 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 121 min. / Street Date November 15, 2016 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Morris, Allan Jeayes, Peter Gawthorne, Hugh McDermott, David Tomlinson, Raymond Huntley, Sebastian Cabot, Irene Handl, Ronald Howard, Michael Rennie.
Cinematography Mutz Greenbaum
Camera Operators Guy Green, Jack Hildyard
Film Editor Douglas Myers
Original Music John Greenwood
Written by Anatole de Grunwald, Roland Pertwee, A.G. Macdonell, Wolfgang Wilhelm based on a character by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Produced by Leslie Howard, Harold Huth
Directed by Leslie Howard
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
I like movies...
‘Pimpernel’ Smith
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1941 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 121 min. / Street Date November 15, 2016 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Morris, Allan Jeayes, Peter Gawthorne, Hugh McDermott, David Tomlinson, Raymond Huntley, Sebastian Cabot, Irene Handl, Ronald Howard, Michael Rennie.
Cinematography Mutz Greenbaum
Camera Operators Guy Green, Jack Hildyard
Film Editor Douglas Myers
Original Music John Greenwood
Written by Anatole de Grunwald, Roland Pertwee, A.G. Macdonell, Wolfgang Wilhelm based on a character by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Produced by Leslie Howard, Harold Huth
Directed by Leslie Howard
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
I like movies...
- 12/30/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
“I know I had a mental breakdown. I know I had it in an airplane. I know it looks to you as if the same thing is happening again, but it isn’t. I’m sure, it isn’t!”
That gremlin on the wing. William Shatner, the only one who can see it. He’s suffered a breakdown and is on another plane with his pretty wife. She manages to keep him calm for quite a while as he fidgets and twists in his seat. Terrified that the creature is going to bring down the jetliner, Shatner takes a gun from a sleeping policeman! Obviously “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”, this classic Twilight Zone episode, was made way before Tsa regulations that would have required a federal Air Marshal to tackle, subdue, and snap the neck of the on-board troublemaker. This is one of the most famous episodes of “The Zone” and...
That gremlin on the wing. William Shatner, the only one who can see it. He’s suffered a breakdown and is on another plane with his pretty wife. She manages to keep him calm for quite a while as he fidgets and twists in his seat. Terrified that the creature is going to bring down the jetliner, Shatner takes a gun from a sleeping policeman! Obviously “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”, this classic Twilight Zone episode, was made way before Tsa regulations that would have required a federal Air Marshal to tackle, subdue, and snap the neck of the on-board troublemaker. This is one of the most famous episodes of “The Zone” and...
- 5/8/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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