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As French bomber crews prepare an air raid from a base in England, we learn the story of Matrac, a French journalist who opposed the Munich Pact. Framed for murder and sent to Devils Island, he and four others escape. They are on a ship bound for Marseilles when France surrenders and fascist sympathizer Major Duval tries to seize the ship for Vichy.
While visiting a Free French bomber squadron in England, a journalist learns from Captain Freycinet the story of some of the men. Just at the outset of World War II, 5 men were found floating in a raft by a passing freighter. The five of them had escaped from Devils Island and Freycinet knows their individual stories well as he was on board the freighter, en route to Marseilles. Four of the men had committed crimes, some serious, some not so serious. One of them however, Jean Matrac, was falsely accused of murder, a political set-up for having criticized the French government. They managed to escape from their island prison with the help of an old man, a former prisoner who, like the escapees hes helped, a patriot at heart. The freighter receives word while still at sea that France has signed an armistice with the Nazis and the ships captain changes course for England. Matrac desperately wants to get back the loving wife hes left behind but in war, nothing turns out as you would hope.
Humphrey Bogart
Jean Matrac
Claude Rains
Capt. Freycinet
Michèle Morgan
Paula Matrac
Philip Dorn
Renault
Sydney Greenstreet
Maj. Duval
Peter Lorre
Marius
George Tobias
Petit
Helmut Dantine
Garou
John Loder
Manning
Victor Francen
Capt. Patain Malo
Vladimir Sokoloff
Grandpere
Eduardo Ciannelli
Chief Engineer
Corinna Mura
Singer
Fred Aldrich
Seaman
Charles Andre
Navigator
Robert Appel
Guard
John Bagni
Seaman
Albert Baldo
Seaman
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