Pimpernel Smith and the Earl of Oxford
Posted By Roger Stritmatter on March 6, 2010
Leslie Howard’s classic anti-Nazi film, after being widely available on vhs in the late 1990s, appears to be out of print again except for this Spanish version (good for the Spanish!) on Amazon. Still, fair use doctrine has its uses, and I’ve managed despite my technological incompetence to break out a few relevant clips, which I’ve always thought to use in a short YouTube on Oxford.
Howard’s character does an inimitably charming and comical send-up of Nazi pretensions. Moreover, his comments are still relevant to those reactionary folk who in 2010 still seem to think that classifying anti-Stratfordians as the moral and intellectual equivalent of “holocaust deniers” can edify their own preening sense of self worth. For this and other reasons, the film has become a cult classic among the Oxfordians.
So, without further ado, here’s Leslie Howard (who produced as well as starred in the film), in persona “Horatio” Smith, on Shakespeare and Oxford (clip #1):
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