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64% Critic Match
Against the Wind
“They played macabre jokes - lively but deadly.”
6.4 / 10• 1948• 1h 36m•NR• English
WarActionDrama
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Robert Beatty
Father Philip Elliot
Lead
Simone Signoret
Michèle Denis
Jack Warner
Max Cronk
Gordon Jackson
Scotty Duncan
Paul Dupuis
Jacques Picquart
James Robertson Justice
Ackerman
Eugene Deckers
Marcel van Hecke
John Slater
Emile Meyer
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Charles Crichton's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Against the Wind is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
