The Prisoner

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Peter Glenville

Status Released

Release Date 1955-04-19

Storyline

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.