A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
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Cast
Richard Ney
Anatole de Keroual
Henry Daniell
Maj. Edward Chevenish
Vanessa Brown
Floria Gilchrist
Edgar Barrier
Sgt. Carnac
Aubrey Mather
Daniel Romaine
Luis van Rooten
Clausel
John Dehner
Couguelat
Paul Marion
Amiot
Douglas Walton
Allan St. Ives
Jean Del Val
Count St. Ives
Phyllis Morris
Annie Gilchrist
Jimmy Aubrey
Guard (uncredited)
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