In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.
| Directing | Fred Zinnemann | Director |
| Writing | Helen Deutsch | Screenplay |
| Writing | Anna Seghers | Novel |
| Production | Pandro S. Berman | Producer |
| Editing | Thomas Richards | Editor |
| Camera | Karl Freund | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Roy Webb | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction |
| Art | Leonid Vasian | Art Direction |
| Art | Edwin B. Willis | Set Decoration |
| Directing | Horace Hough | Assistant Director |
| Sound | James Burbridge | Sound |
