Feb 01, 1948
96 min
Full-HD

Against the Wind (1948)

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.

Category

War Action Drama

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

Ealing Studios J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Robert Beatty

Father Philip Elliot

Simone Signoret

Michèle Denis

Jack Warner

Max Cronk

Gordon Jackson

Scotty Duncan

Paul Dupuis

Jacques Picquart

James Robertson Justice

Ackerman

Eugene Deckers

Marcel van Hecke

John Slater

Emile Meyer

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