A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. As a prince of his church, and a popular hero of this people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and afterward his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conquerer. In prison, his interrogator is determined to get a confession of guilt against the state from the strong willed man, and thus destroy his power over his people. The verbal and psychological battles are gripping and powerful - not even the increasing pressures put upon the Cardinal can force him to weaken; not even solitary confinement, continuous blazing light in his cell, sleeplessness, efforts to persuade him he is going mad. And yet, in the deepening conflict, the superb indomitable prisoner, creates a tremendous pity on his tormentor, the interrogator.

Starring:

Alec Guinness, Denis Shaw, Gerard Heinz, Jack Hawkins, Jeanette Sterke, Jonathan Bailey, Kenneth Griffith, Mark Dignam, Oscar Quitak, Percy Herbert, Raymond Huntley, Richard Leech, Ronald Lewis, Wilfrid Lawson, Yoko Tani

Genre:

Drama