After escaping a Nazi POW camp, a young Scottish RAF gunner recounts his perilous journey through occupied France with the help of the Resistance. During his debriefing in London, French intelligence officers press him for details—especially about one companion whose true loyalties may not be what they seemed.
Direction
Hitchcock's economy—every frame earned, zero fat.
Writing
Script by J.O.C. Orton, tight as a drum.
Production
Made for British Ministry of Information, 1944.
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of two French-language shorts Hitchcock made for Allied propaganda; the other, Aventure Malgache, is largely lost.
Shot in just two weeks at Welwyn Studios with amateur French actors in London.
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