Opening credits: This film is based on fact but the characters are fictitious. Any similarity to any name or individual is coincidental.
Opening credits prologue: France - June 1940
The following is at the end of the cast list in the opening credits: "Officers and Men of the 51st Highland Division and 50th A.A. Brigade"
The following is spoken by an off screen narrator immediately following the opening credits: "This film is dedicated to prisoners of war. Their unbroken spirit is the symbol of a moral victory for which no bells have pealed, and which will not be remembered with the battle names on regimental colors. It was a war in which no decorations could be given, but to have come out of it with a whole spirit is its highest honor. These are a few of those men captured in the summer of nineteen forty. They were the men who stood on the Dial, the Somme, and the La Basi Canal, who fought at Calais, April, St. Valery, and the vital perimeter around the beaches of Dunkirk, the men who held on until the German armor thundered past their lines. Two hundred and twenty miles they marched into captivity, through that blazing, gusty June, through France, through Belgium, through Holland, to the Rhine."