The Prisoner .

The Prisoner

Actors:  Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Percy Herbert, Oscar Quitak, Wilfrid Lawson, Kenneth Griffith Directors:  Peter Glenville

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.