"Pimpernel" Smith
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| Directed by | Leslie Howard |
| Written by | A. G. Macdonell |
| Screenplay by | Anatole de Grunwald Ian Dalrymple (uncredited) |
| Story by | A. G. Macdonell Wolfgang Wilhelm |
| Based on | "'Pimpernel' Smith" (story) by
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| Produced by | Leslie Howard Harold Huth (associate) |
| Starring | Leslie Howard Francis L. Sullivan Mary Morris |
| Cinematography | Mutz Greenbaum |
| Edited by | Sidney Cole Douglas Myers |
| Music by | John Greenwood |
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| Distributed by | Anglo-American Film Corporation (UK) |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
"Pimpernel" Smith (released in the US as Mister V) is a 1941 British anti-Nazi thriller, produced and directed by its star Leslie Howard, which updates his role in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) 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 the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg to lead a 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.