An American reporter in Nazi-occupied Greece is given a list of the names of resistance leaders. He is asked to smuggle it out of the country and take it to British intelligence, which leads to his being pursued across the country by the Gestapo and their collaborators. Second World War thriller based on the novel by Leon Uris, starring Robert Mitchum and Stanley Baker.

In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for London the following day. While there he is tricked into smuggling a list of resistance leaders out of the country and is pursued by the Germans.