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1953-11-231h 28m

WarHistory

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.

Directors
Lewis Gilbert

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Anthony Steel

    Anthony Steel

    Lt Geoffrey Ainsworth

  2. Jack Warner

    Jack Warner

    Capt Maddox

  3. Robert Beatty

    Robert Beatty

    Lt Jim Reed

  4. Anton Diffring

    Anton Diffring

    Capt Schultz

  5. William Sylvester

    William Sylvester

    Texas

  6. Eddie Byrne

    Eddie Byrne

    Joe

  7. Guy Middleton

    Guy Middleton

    Bongo

  8. Paul Carpenter

    Paul Carpenter

    Fred

  9. Michael Balfour

    Michael Balfour

    Hank

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CinemaSerf

Nov 14, 2022

7/10

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" - a head made of papier-mâché that fits onto a collapsible torso built to fool the guards during their routine inspections. After a few mishaps, a bit of bribery, betrayal and some impatience, it finally falls to "Ainsworth" to try and escape... This has a strong cast - including Anton Diffring and Robert Beatty, and is written with serious intent but enough dark humour to flow well for 90 minutes, and I really quite enjoyed it.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
escapeprisoner of warbased on true storydummyprison camp