Against the Wind
They played macabre jokes - lively but deadly.
1948 · 1h 36m · N/A
Action, Drama, War
Directed by
Charles Crichton
Overview
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.
Director and cast
- Charles Crichton Director
- Robert Beatty as Father Philip Elliot
- Simone Signoret as Michèle Denis
- Jack Warner as Max Cronk
- Gordon Jackson as Scotty Duncan
- Paul Dupuis as Jacques Picquart
- James Robertson Justice as Ackerman
- André Morell as Abbott
- Eugene Deckers as Marcel van Hecke
- John Slater as Emile Meyer
- Peter Illing as Andrew
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