Overview
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.
Cast
- Errol Flynn as Jean Picard
- Paul Lukas as Inspector Marcel Bonet
- Jean Sullivan as Marianne
- Lucile Watson as Mme. Maret
- Dennis Hoey as Father Le Clerc
- Albert Van Antwerp as Vitrac, member of underground
- Wallis Clark as Razeau, member of underground
- Victor Kilian as LaTour, member of underground
- James Flavin as Captain of Mobile Guard
- Douglass Dumbrille as Police Commissioner LaFarge