History Film / PimpernelSmith

* InTheOriginalKlingon: General Von Graum informs Smith that Shakespeare was actually German. Smith responds, "But you must at least admit that the English translation is marvellous!"

* CulturedBadass: Prof. Smith is a dreamy intellectual who doesn't mind to get down to business.

* VillainousGlutton: von Graum has a penchant for chocolates.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The page quote. When General Von Graum sneers that he might as well not waste his words on a "doomed man", Professor Smith coolly retorts with a few words for his enlightenment, which offer a searing indictment of Nazi Germany.

* AuthorsOfQuote: Shakespeare, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll

''Pimpernel Smith'' is a British 1941 anti-Nazi thriller, produced and directed by its star LeslieHoward, which updates his role in the 1934 film ''Film/{{The Scarlet Pimpernel|1934}}'' from Revolutionary France to pre-World War II Europe. The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described his work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda". The film is also notable for helping 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 between July 9 1944 and January 17 1945.

''Pimpernel Smith'' is a British 1941 anti-Nazi thriller, produced and directed by its star Leslie Howard, which updates his role in the 1934 film ''Film/{{The Scarlet Pimpernel|1934}}'' from Revolutionary France to pre-World War II Europe. The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described his work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda". The film is also notable for helping 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 between July 9 1944 and January 17 1945.

''Pimpernel Smith'' is a British 1941 anti-Nazi thriller, produced and directed by its star Leslie Howard, which updates his role in the 1934 film ''Film/TheScarletPimpernel'' from Revolutionary France to pre-World War II Europe. The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described his work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda". The film is also notable for helping 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 between July 9 1944 and January 17 1945.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Shakespeare was German. Only kidding he was actually the Earl of Oxford.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: In one scene, the increasingly obnoxious orchestral interpretation of "There is a Tavern in the Town" turn out to be from a group of German musical experts off-screen trying to research its relationship with the spate of recent escapes.

''Pimpernel Smith'' is a British 1941 anti-Nazi thriller, produced and directed by its star Leslie Howard, which updates his role in the 1934 film ''Film/TheScarletPimpernel'' from Revolutionary France to pre-World War II Europe. The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described his work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda". The film is also notable for helping 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 between July 1944 and January 1945.

* RedHerring [[spoiler:Those boxes that the students were guarding on the train? Turns out there was nothing of interest to [[ThoseWackyNazis Those Wacky Nazis]] there. Not even an ancient Aryan civilization.]]
* StealthHiBye: Prof. Smith has a talent for this. It's frequently mentioned and/or demonstrated, and it's also [[spoiler:how Smith escapes across the border at the end of the film.]]

* RedHerring [[spoiler:Those boxes that the students were guarding on the train? Turns out there was nothing of interest to [[ThoseWackyNazis]] there. Not even an ancient Aryan civilization.]]

''Pimpernel Smith'' is a British 1941 anti-Nazi thriller, produced and directed by its star Leslie Howard, which updates his role in the 1934 film ''Film/TheScarletPimpernel'' from Revolutionary France to pre-World War II Europe. The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described his work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda". The film is also notable for helping 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 World War II.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: All the actors playing German and Nazi soldiers sound as if they have just walked off the cast for OliverTwist.