The man the Gestapo hates!
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
- 7.2
- 1941
- Released
- 2h 0m
Leslie Howard
Professor Horatio Smith
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
Allan Jeayes
Dr Benckendorf
Dennis Arundell
Hoffman
Joan Kemp-Welch
School-Teacher
Philip Friend
SpencerLaurence Kitchin
Clarence Elstead
David Tomlinson
SteveBasil Appleby
Jock MacIntyrePercy Walsh
DvorakSuzanne Clair
Salesgirl
Charles Paton
Steinhof
Aubrey Mallalieu
DeanGeorge Street
SchmidtOriel Ross
Lady Willoughby
Bryan Herbert
Jaromir
Arthur Hambling
JordanBen Williams
Graubitz
Ernest Butcher
WeberMary Brown
Girl StudentW. Phillip
InnkeeperIlse Bard
GretchenErnest Verne
German OfficerHector Abbas
Karl MeyerNeal Arden
Second PrisonerRichard George
Prison GuardRoddy Hughes
Zigor
Hugh Pryse
Wagner
Michael Brennan
Camp Guard with LanternElwyn Brook-Jones
Bit Part
Sebastian Cabot
Bit RolePeter Cozens
ManArthur Denton
Gestapo Man Following Smith
Irene Handl
Bit PartVincent Holman
Doctor at Diggings
Ronald Howard
Minor Role
Stuart Latham
Telephone Operator
Michael Rennie
Prison Camp OfficerCharles Rolfe
German Officer at Customs
John Slater
Reporter
Harry Terry
Camp Guard
A.E. Matthews
Earl of MeadowbrookReleased
en
- #nazi
- #world war ii
- #british spy
Reviews
Leslie Howard is on good form here as the outwardly fastidious academic with a secret to keep. He decides to offer some of his students an holiday trip to Germany (just the boys!) so they can try to establish once and for all whether there was an "Aryan" race there. Quickly we discover he also has an hand in rescuing many creative and scientifically minded for the evil clutch of the Nazis and thei