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"Pimpernel" Smith (released in the United States as Mister V) is a 1941 British anti-Nazi thriller, produced and directed by its star Leslie Howard, which updates his role in the 1934 The Scarlet Pimpernel from Revolutionary France to pre-Second World War Europe. The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described his work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda".
The film helped to inspire Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg to mount his real-life rescue operation in Budapest that saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi concentration camps during the last months of the Second World War.
Original Release
07/28/1941
US Release
02/12/1942
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Allan Jeayes | Dr Benckendorf |
| 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 |
| Dennis Arundell | Hoffman |
| Joan Kemp-Welch | School-Teacher |
| Philip Friend | Spencer |
Directors
Writers
Roland Pertwee , Anatole de Grunwald, A.G. Macdonell, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Ian Dalrymple, Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Allan Jeayes | Dr Benckendorf |
| 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 |
| Dennis Arundell | Hoffman |
| Joan Kemp-Welch | School-Teacher |
| Philip Friend | Spencer |
| Laurence Kitchin | Clarence Elstead |
| David Tomlinson | Steve |
| Basil Appleby | Jock MacIntyre |
| Percy Walsh | Dvorak |
| A.E. Matthews | Earl of Meadowbrook |
| Aubrey Mallalieu | Dean |
| Ben Williams | Graubitz |
| Ernest Butcher | Weber |
| Arthur Hambling | Jordan |
| Mary Brown | Betty / Girl Student |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Leslie Howard | Producer |
| Harold Huth | Producer |
| Herbert Smith | Producer |
