Against the Wind
Feb 01 1948
•2h 36m
•War, Action, Drama
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.
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Robert Beatty
Father Philip Elliot
Simone Signoret
Michèle Denis
Jack Warner
Max Cronk
Gordon Jackson
Scotty Duncan
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