The Seventh Cross(1944)

movie - first aired/released 1944-07-24 - audience 6.8

Directed by Fred Zinnemann

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 attempts an escape to freedom in Holland.