The War's Most Daring P.O.W. Escape
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
- 7.2
- 1953
- Released
- 1h 28m
Anthony Steel
Lt Geoffrey Ainsworth
Jack Warner
Capt Maddox
Robert Beatty
Lt Jim Reed
Anton Diffring
Capt Schultz
William Sylvester
Texas
Eddie Byrne
Joe
Guy Middleton
Bongo
Paul Carpenter
Fred
Michael Balfour
Hank
Moultrie Kelsall
Henry
Frederick Valk
Camp Kommandant
Frederick Schiller
Herman
Peter Jones
SchoolieGeoffrey Hibbert
Cutter
Walter Gotell
Feldwebel
Peter Swanwick
Obergefreiter
Released
en
- #escape
- #prisoner of war
- #based on true story
- #dummy
- #prison camp
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Lewis Gilbert has put together quite a good cast for this light-hearted wartime tale of POWs who find quite an innovative way of escaping and goon-baiting at the same time. Jack Warner ("Maddox") heads up the Allied side while Frederick Valk the Nazi one - and battle commences. The allies have a secret weapon - well, two actually. One is "Ainsworth" (Anthony Steel) who invents the other - "Albert"