1948
6.1 (13 votes)
1h 36m
Genres
War
Action
Drama
Production Companies
Ealing Studios
J. Arthur Rank Organisation
J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Against the Wind
They played macabre jokes - lively but deadly.
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: Charles Crichton
Producer: Michael Balcon
Screenplay: Michael Pertwee, J. Elder Wills, T. E. B. Clarke
Director of Photography: Lionel Banes, Paul Beeson
Top Cast
Robert Beatty
Father Philip Elliot
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
