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The Prisoner

Release Date:December 11, 1955

Running Time:95 min

Genres:Drama

Director

Cast

Alec Guinness Jack Hawkins Wilfrid Lawson Kenneth Griffith Jeanette Sterke Ronald Lewis Raymond Huntley Mark Dignam Gerard Heinz Percy Herbert Oscar Quitak Denis Shaw

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.

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