In an unnamed East European country, Cardinal Guinness of the Roman Catholic Church is arrested and charged with treason. Guinness admits to all of the crimes he is alleged to have committed but his death sentence is commuted and he is freed to walk among his fellow countrymen, a broken man. (Original TItle - The Prisoner (1955)) © 1955 London Independent Producers, renewed 1983 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.