While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.
Leslie Howard
as Captain Fred Allison
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
as Lieutenant Fred Digby
Paul Lukas
as Colonel Carl Ehrlich
Margaret Lindsay
as Monica Allison
Robert Barrat
as The Commandant
Arthur Hohl
as Cocky
John Bleifer
as Strogin
William LeMaire
as Tex Martin
J. Carrol Naish
as Cpl. Guarand
Philip Faversham
as Lieutenant Haversham
Frank Reicher
as Herr Hauptman
Joyce Coad
as Elsa
