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  1. The Prisoner is a 1955 British black and white psychological thriller film directed by Peter Glenville and based on the play of the same name by Bridget Boland. It stars Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins.

  2. The Prisoner: Directed by Peter Glenville. With Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson, Kenneth Griffith. A Cardinal is arrested for treason against the state.

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    • Drama
    • Peter Glenville
    • 1955-12-11
  3. Voted One of the Year's Ten Best Films by the 1955 New York Times Film Critics. Released in United States Winter December 1955. Released in United States on Video June 8, 1989. Film is loosely based on the real-life case of Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty who was imprisoned by the Nazis in 1944.

    • Peter Glenville, Denis O'dell
    • Alec Guinness
  4. In the early post-World War II years, a cardinal (Alec Guinness) in an unnamed eastern European country is thrown in jail for treason. While there, he is subject to an intense degree of torture ...

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    • Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson
    • Peter Glenville
    • Drama
  5. Overview. 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.

  6. The Prisoner is a 1955 British black and white psychological thriller film directed by Peter Glenville and based on the play of the same name by Bridget Boland. It stars Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins.

  7. Directed by 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.

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