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Date: 28 July 1941 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Leslie Howard
Synopsis: A professor disguises his activities as an agent who rescues eminent men from the Nazis by a veneer of absentmindedness. His students help him rescue 5 men and a girl blackmailed by the Gestapo with the hope of rescuing her father.
Genre: War
Subjects: World War II, Espionage, Third Reich
Releases
Date: 1941Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 118 mins Length: 10618 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 28 July 1941 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Leslie Howard
Synopsis: A professor disguises his activities as an agent who rescues eminent men from the Nazis by a veneer of absentmindedness. His students help him rescue 5 men and a girl blackmailed by the Gestapo with the hope of rescuing her father.
Genre: War
Subjects: World War II, Espionage, Third Reich
Releases
Date: 1941Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 118 mins Length: 10618 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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Presents: British National Films Limited, Produced by: Leslie Howard, Associate Producer: Harold Huth, Production Manager: Phil C. Samuel, Assistant Director: George Pollock, Casting: Irene Howard, Screen Play: Anatole de Grunwald, Scenario: Anatole de Grunwald, Roland Pertwee, Based on an original story by: A.G. Macdonell, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Technical Supervision and Photography: Mutz Greenbaum, Camera Operator: Jack Hildyard, Supervising Editor: Sidney Cole, Editor: Douglas Myers, Settings: Duncan Sutherland, Assistant Art Director: Ward Richards, Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway, Music Composed by: John Greenwood, Music Direction: Muir Mathieson, Sound Supervisor: A.W. Watkins, [Sound] Recorded by: John Dennis, Sound System: Western Electric Mirrophonic, [Made] At [Denham Studios]: D&P Studios
Cast
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Leslie Howard (Professor Horatio Smith), Francis Sullivan (General von Graum), Hugh Macdermott (David Maxwell), Mary Morris (Ludmilla Koslowski), Raymond Huntley (Marx), Manning Whiley (Bertie Gregson), Peter Gawthorne (Sidimir Koslowski), Allan Jeayes (Dr Benckendorf), Dennis Arundell (Hoffman), Joan Kemp-Welch (schoolteacher), Philip Friend (Spencer), Lawrence Kitchen (Clarence Elstead), David Tomlinson (Steve), Basil Appleby (Jock MacIntyre), Percy Walsh (Dvorak), Suzanne Claire (salesgirl), Roland Pertwee (embassy official - Sir George Smith), Charles Paton (Steinhof), Aubrey Mallalieu (dean), George Street (Schmidt), Oriel Ross (Lady Willoughby), A.E. Matthews (Earl of Meadowbrook), Brian Herbert (Jaromir), Arthur Hambling (Jordan), Ben Williams (Graubitz), Ernest Butcher (Weber), Mary Brown (girl student), W. Phillips (innkeeper), Ilse Bard (Gretchen), Ernest Verne (German officer), Hector Abbas (Karl Meyer), Neal Arden (second prisoner), Richard George (prison guard), Roddy Hughes (Zigor), Hwfa Pryce (Wagner), John Slater (reporter), Michael Rennie (officer at concentration camp), Violete Cunnington (shop assistant)