Paris, 14th July. An English pickpocket Michael Mason finds himself
public enemy number one when he steals a bag and casually discards the teddy
bear that he finds inside it. Unbeknown to him, the bear contains a
bomb that is detonated almost immediately after he throws it away.
Naturally, Michael is mistaken for a terrorist and is soon hotly pursued
by the security forces, including the CIA. Sean Briar, the agent leading
the investigation, soon catches up with Michael but quickly realises he has
nothing to do with the terrorist attack. Suspecting he is a pawn in
some fiendish plot, the pickpocket agrees to join forces with Briar to unmask
the real perpetrators of the atrocity. What the two men uncover is
a terrifying campaign of terror orchestrated by a powerful group of individuals
within the French government. By the time they realise this, the plotters
already have them in their sights...
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.
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