Errol Flynn
Jean Picard/Emil DuPont
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Plot. In Vichy Paris during World War II, career criminal Jean Picard awaits execution. French Sûreté Inspector Marcel Bonet has pursued Picard for 15 years, finally apprehending him for murder. An air raid delivers a direct hit to the prison when Picard is at the guillotine.
Uncertain Glory: Directed by Raoul Walsh. With Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson, Faye Emerson. After a career criminal is recaptured and knows he faces the guillotine, he offers to exchange his life for 100 hostages slated for execution by the Germans.
- (1.5K)
- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Raoul Walsh
- 1944-04-22
1944's Uncertain Glory delves rather awkwardly into a story of the French Occupation, offering a Nazi hostage situation as an opportunity for personal redemption. Thief and murderer Jean Picard (Flynn) escapes from the guillotine when his execution is interrupted by a timely allied bombing raid.
- Raoul Walsh, James Mcmahon, James Vincent
- Errol Flynn
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Summaries. After a career criminal is recaptured and knows he faces the guillotine, he offers to exchange his life for 100 hostages slated for execution by the Germans. During WWII, in France, Jean Picard is a criminal who is about to be executed via the guillotine, but an air raid interrupts it and allows him to escape.
Errol Flynn is headed for "Uncertain Glory" in this 1944 film also starring Paul Lukas, Faye Emerson, Lucille Watson, Sheldon Leonard, and Jean Sullivan. The premise is similar to 1943's "Hangmen Also Die!" in one way - the Nazis have taken hostages who will die unless a saboteur is found.
Released Apr 22, 1944 1h 42m War List Reviews 73% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings Hounded by a police inspector (Paul Lukas), a condemned criminal (Errol Flynn) turns noble in World War II...
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A French playboy gets serious when his country is threatened during World War II. Overview. In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest.
