In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.
Karl Freund | Director of Photography |
Roy Webb | Original Music Composer |
Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction |
Leonid Vasian | Art Direction |
Edwin B. Willis | Set Decoration |
Horace Hough | Assistant Director |
James Burbridge | Sound |
Fred Zinnemann | Director |
Helen Deutsch | Screenplay |
Anna Seghers | Novel |