The Prisoner (1955)

Directors

Peter Glenville

Cast

Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson, Kenneth Griffith, Jeanette Sterke, Ronald Lewis

The story

In the aftermath of World War II, in an unnamed European country where communist tyranny has recently replaced Nazi tyranny (possibly Hungary or Poland), the government falsely accuses a popular cardinal of treason. His interrogator, an old associate of the cardinal in the resistance to the Nazi occupation who is now a loyal communist, is given the task of persuading the cardinal to make a public confession. Because the cardinal had withstood torture when he opposed the Nazis, the interrogator knows he will not be able to use force to get him to make a false confession, so he intends to do it by using more psychological means and…

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