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Against the Wind is a black-and-white British film directed by Charles Crichton and produced by Michael Balcon, released through Ealing Studios in 1948. Against the Wind is a World War II sabotage/resistance drama set in occupied Belgium, starring Robert Beatty, Jack Warner and Simone Signoret (in her first English-language film role).
Against the Wind: Directed by Charles Crichton. With Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson. A secret London school trains a motley group of men and women for sabotage work in German occupied Belgium during World War II.
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- Action, Drama, War
- Charles Crichton
- 1949-06-26
Sep 10, 2022 · Against the Wind is a black-and-white British film directed by Charles Crichton and produced by Michael Balcon, released through Ealing Studios in 1948.Against the Wind is a World War II sabotage/resistance drama set in occupied Belgium, starring Robert Beatty, Jack Warner and Simone Signoret (in her first English-language film role).
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England was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when Ealing Studios began production on the resistance thriller Against the Wind (1948). The film is centered on the British Special Operations Executive, a covert military branch that trains agents to operate behind enemy lines to sabotage German operations and smuggle intelligence to the Allies, and the diverse group of ...
- Charles Crichton
- Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty
Synopsis. They played macabre jokes - lively but deadly. 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. Cast. Crew.
Above-average Ealing thriller, with a mixture of British and Belgian agents helping the resistance movement in occupied Europe during World War II. A little implausible, but backed by some semi ...
