Polish journalist, Boleslaw Wierzbianski goes out on a limb to save a man who he knows nothing about.
A stowaway on a Polish ship that has docked in London is manhandled by the crew. The dock workers are worried about him.
Boleslaw and other Poles use every legal avenue to get the man free off the ship and make an application for asylum. The crew of the ship label the man as a criminal, a term that is used against any person who opposes the communists.
However it is a bank holiday weekend. The courts are not open and there is traffic. It looks like a losing race against time.
Yet the case reaches the attention of Winston Churchill and the Lord Chief Justice of England.
A look back at an era where going against a communist regime would be regarded as heroic. Nowadays Bolselaw's actions would be deemed to be one of an elitist liberal do gooder.
A stowaway on a Polish ship that has docked in London is manhandled by the crew. The dock workers are worried about him.
Boleslaw and other Poles use every legal avenue to get the man free off the ship and make an application for asylum. The crew of the ship label the man as a criminal, a term that is used against any person who opposes the communists.
However it is a bank holiday weekend. The courts are not open and there is traffic. It looks like a losing race against time.
Yet the case reaches the attention of Winston Churchill and the Lord Chief Justice of England.
A look back at an era where going against a communist regime would be regarded as heroic. Nowadays Bolselaw's actions would be deemed to be one of an elitist liberal do gooder.