Pimpernel Smith

Leslie Howard (Gone with the Wind) directs and stars in this 1941 action-adventure as Horatio Smith, a daring Allied agent who poses as a bumbling scholar and stages a fake archaeological dig in order to shuttle refugees out of Nazi-occupied Europe. But soon a wily Gestapo officer (Francis L. Sullivan) smells a rat. Mary Morris co-stars in this adaptation of Emmuska Orczy's novel &NFi;The Scarlet Pimpernel&NFi_;.