During WWII, Alfred Hitchcock made two short films that starred French actors and were entirely in French. They were made as propaganda films aimed at Free French audiences. While interesting as curios, there isn't much about them that seems like they were made by the master film maker. In fact, overall they are both incredibly forgettable films.
This film is about two soldiers who escape from a Nazi prison camp. However, after one of them is able to make his way all the way back to Britain, he learns that the escape wasn't exactly what he thought it was...it was actually orchestrated by the Nazis! To explain all this, the film consists of several flashback scenes. Unfortunately, while mildly diverting, none of this is all that interesting.
By the way, another person indicated that the captions were often clipped off in the DVD release. This is very odd, as I downloaded a free copy (it is in the public domain) and the archive.org copy had captions that were easy to read and never were partially obscured. This is one case, I guess, where the free copy is better than the one you might pay for yourself!
This film is about two soldiers who escape from a Nazi prison camp. However, after one of them is able to make his way all the way back to Britain, he learns that the escape wasn't exactly what he thought it was...it was actually orchestrated by the Nazis! To explain all this, the film consists of several flashback scenes. Unfortunately, while mildly diverting, none of this is all that interesting.
By the way, another person indicated that the captions were often clipped off in the DVD release. This is very odd, as I downloaded a free copy (it is in the public domain) and the archive.org copy had captions that were easy to read and never were partially obscured. This is one case, I guess, where the free copy is better than the one you might pay for yourself!