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 HowardCaptain Fred Allison
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.Lieutenant Fred Digby
Paul LukasColonel Carl Ehrlich
Margaret LindsayMonica Allison
Robert BarratThe Commandant
Arthur HohlCocky
John BleiferStroginWilliam LeMaireTex Martin
J. Carrol NaishCpl. Guarand
Philip FavershamLieutenant Haversham
Frank ReicherHerr Hauptman
Joyce CoadElsa
Bert SprotteSergeant Major
Harry CordingFirst Orderly
Halliwell HobbesBritish Major General
