Set in Greece in 1941, before and after the Axis invasion, the film follows an American journalist who possesses a list of Greek resistance leaders.

Having memorized the list he destroys it and is then pursued by various groups of people keen to have it: Communist resistance fighters, the Gestapo and Greek collaborators.

[3] Film rights were bought by Raymond Stross in England, who said he wanted Clark Gable for the lead.

[4] Stross eventually set up the film with MGM and New York's Cine World Productions, and announced Robert Mitchum would star.

[9] The film was shot from June to December 1958 with location shooting in Greece and interiors at MGM-British Studios.

Despite whatever promises about length or final cut they made to you, they take it back then and do what they were going to do in the first place.According to MGM records the film earned $510,000 in the US and Canada and $775,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $497,000.