Against the Wind

  • War
  • Action
  • Drama
2/1/1948
96
NR

They played macabre jokes - lively but deadly.

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.

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  • Geronimo1967

    With his homeland under a Nazi yoke, displaced priest Fr. Philip (Robert Beatty) is part of a group of courageous men and women who are training to become underground fighters. With their target a records office, a small team are parachuted into a Brussels packed full of soldiers and so their perilous project begins. We know that they have an ally working within the army ranks but what they dont know is that there is an enemy fifth columnist working within their own. Things soon come to an head when Emile (John Slater) is captured and so Michelle (Simone Signoret) and the out-of-his-depth Duncan (Gordon Jackson) have to come up with a rescue plan before the Gestapo close in. Though the latter elements of this story deliver the more predicta...

    July 12, 2025

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