Movie: Against the Wind

Top 10 Billed Cast

Robert Beatty
Robert Beatty

Father Philip Elliot

Simone Signoret
Simone Signoret

Michèle Denis

Jack Warner
Jack Warner

Max Cronk

Gordon Jackson
Gordon Jackson

Scotty Duncan

Paul Dupuis
Paul Dupuis

Jacques Picquart

James Robertson Justice
James Robertson Justice

Ackerman

Eugene Deckers
Eugene Deckers

Marcel van Hecke

John Slater
John Slater

Emile Meyer

Peter Illing
Peter Illing

Andrew

Sybille Binder
Sybille Binder

Florence Malou

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  • Overview

    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.

  • Release Date

    1948-02-01

  • Average

    6.4

  • Rating:

    3.2 starts
  • Tagline

    They played macabre jokes - lively but deadly.

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    English
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