在这部逃亡二十五小时剧情/战争片中,罗马尼亚山村，奎恩的角色因其妻子拒绝治安官的非分之想而被以犹太身份投入集中营。后同犹太狱友脱狱逃去匈牙利，又被以敌国公民为由抓捕，后被送往德国做苦工。在那里，他被德国军官认定是雅利安血统，释放并强迫加入党卫军。战后，因此身份而遭俄国人毒打，被美国人收押判刑。最终获释，与妻子团聚。
During World War II, Johann Moritz (Anthony Quinn), a Romanian gentile peasant, whose pretty wife is lusted after by the village gendarme, is denounced as being Jewish, arrested, and sent to a concentration camp. In the camp, the camp commander mistakes him for a new recruit, a volunteer to the S.S. and he is drafted into the S.S. Ironically, after the war, he is detained by the Allied authorities for his wartime involvement with the S.S.
