A British-American, moral adventure about the ethics of justice, based on the stage play ESCAPE (1926), written by the renowned English activist, essayist, novelist, playwright -and former actor- John Galsworthy.
The theatrical play was adapted for the wide screen a) in 1930 by Basil Dean, b) in 1948 by the American essayist, writer, screenwriter, director and producer Philip Ives Dunne in collaboration with the sophisticated (Anti-Nazi & Communist) American writer Donald Ogden Stewart.
The movie was produced by the Polish-American director and producer William Perlberg (Wolf Perelberg, of Jewish descent).
Filmed in London & Denham, (Buckinghamshire) & Dartmoor, (Devon) in the United Kingdom.
Directed by the American screenwriter, producer and director Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (son of Jewish immigrants from Germany).
This film is a movie considered the nearest possible to the revolutionary philosophy of Albert Camus (see, for example, the escape of the resistance hero with the help of Death, after the fall of the plane that reminds Victor Laszlo's escape from Casablanca): if Paul Henreid was the double (or ''doppelganger") with the body of Albert Camus, Rex Harrison was his eyes.
The movie is closely related, also, to the other 4 political adventures starring Rex Harrison: NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH & TEN DAYS IN PARIS and the -considered lost and- rarest ALL AT SEA & SILENT BATTLE/CONTINENTAL EXPRESS.