"Pimpernel" Smith declared Swedish territory, he managed to rescue tens of thousands from the German death camps. In May 1945, ""Pimpernel" Smith" was released in Sweden without any age restrictions. "Pimpernel" Smith "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 the Swedish diplomat Raoul
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel he was supposed to have concealed. Esther is now living in one of the poorer parts of Paris while a number of astute jailbirds are plotting to obtain her money and wealth by forcing her to choose between marrying one of their gang, Citizen Merri, or face death. The Pimpernel takes on the guise of Citizen Rateau, a tall, cadaverous-looking creature, with sunken eyes and broad, hunched up shoulders and a dry rasping cough that proclaimed the ravages of some mortal disease. Can he rescue Esther and her English lover Jack Kennard from the evil plot? Lucile Clamette and her