Clive Brook is a well respected physician with a list of patients that includes many high-ranking government officials, including Hitler. He is married to Diana Wynyard, who has just been appointed to a position of some influence in the regime. He has every reason to feel smugly content with his position, but while attending church, he sees his pastor arrested for treason to state and realizes the horror of what is going on. When one of his patients, a young Derek Farr, has his girl friend arrested, he deides to start making nightly broadcasts spreading the truth of what is going on.
Anthony Asquith's movie is a highly competent movie about the result of conscience in an conscienceless millieu, with an excellent cast that includes Joyce Howard, Bernard Miles, Hay Petrie, Katie Johnson, and way down the list, Joan Hickson, Ken Annakin, and William Hartnell. The sheer propaganda aspect of it does not quite overwhelm the philosophic aspects of the movie, but its current obscurity is certainly understandable; it certainly lacks subtlety as well as the big show of bravado that have been more likely to win plaudits. Instead, it relies on Brooks' coldness and rising anger.
Anthony Asquith's movie is a highly competent movie about the result of conscience in an conscienceless millieu, with an excellent cast that includes Joyce Howard, Bernard Miles, Hay Petrie, Katie Johnson, and way down the list, Joan Hickson, Ken Annakin, and William Hartnell. The sheer propaganda aspect of it does not quite overwhelm the philosophic aspects of the movie, but its current obscurity is certainly understandable; it certainly lacks subtlety as well as the big show of bravado that have been more likely to win plaudits. Instead, it relies on Brooks' coldness and rising anger.