Against the Wind

IMDb link: 0040080
IMDb rating: 6.4 (917 votes)
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama, War
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Gordon Jackson and others

Release date: 26 Jun 1949
Release year: 1948
Runtime: 96 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Keywords: secret mission, heroism, british secret agent, military training, semi documentary scene, explosive, belgian secret agent, belgium, priest, parachute

Plot:

Philip Elliot, a refugee Belgian priest, reports to a secret school in London for spies and saboteurs behind German lines. After training, he and two others parachute into Belgium to help destroy a records office. This mission leads to German capture of an important resistance leader, and four more agents (Emile, Max, Scotty, and Michele) go in on a rescue mission. But one of them is a traitor; and other things go wrong.

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