Overview
While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.
Director and cast
- Roy Del Ruth Director
- Leslie Howard as Captain Fred Allison
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Lieutenant Fred Digby
- Paul Lukas as Colonel Carl Ehrlich
- Margaret Lindsay as Monica Allison
- Robert Barrat as The Commandant
- Arthur Hohl as Cocky
- John Bleifer as Strogin
- William LeMaire as Tex Martin
- J. Carrol Naish as Cpl. Guarand
- Philip Faversham as Lieutenant Haversham
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