 In the movie version, set in Athens, in Piraeus and in village areas, Mike is played by Robert Mitchum, as a journalist.He happens to have met a leading figure of the Hellenic resistance movement years earlier and now that gentleman sees him as the means to get the list of useful Hellenic figures to British Intelligence.Along the way he joins resistance fighters keen to liberate their nation from Nazi oppression but must also deal with at least one British traitor named Bluey and several Greek traitors or collaborators.