Overview

A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.

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Cast

Alec Guinness

Jack Hawkins

Wilfrid Lawson

Kenneth Griffith

Jeanette Sterke

Ronald Lewis

Raymond Huntley

Mark Dignam

Gerard Heinz

Percy Herbert