The Scarlet and the Black

Movie · 2h 23m

Starring Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, John Gielgud, Raf Vallone

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.