Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
A Cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. As a Prince of his church, and a popular hero of this people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war, and afterward his resistance when his country again fell to another totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to get a confession of guilt against the state from the strong willed man, and thus destroy his power over his people.