
Gregory Peck stars as the man who led thousands in a daring escape to freedom - right under the nose of the Gestapo.
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.

Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty

Col. Herbert Kappler

Pope Pius XII

Father Vittorio

Capt. Hirsch

Gen. Max Helm