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Stalag 17

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Stalag 17
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NR,2hrs 0min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama,War
Released:
January 1, 1953
Director:
Billy Wilder
Distributor:
Paramount
Starring:
William Holden, Don Taylor, John Taylor  ...more
Synopsis: The scene is a German POW camp, sometime during the mid-1940s. Stalag 17, exclusively populated by American sergeants, is overseen by sadistic commandant Oberst Von Schernbach (Otto Preminger) and the deceptively avuncular sergeant Schultz (Sig Ruman). The inmates spend their waking hours circumventing the boredom of prison life; at night, they attempt to arrange escapes. When two of the escapees, Johnson and Manfredi, are shot down like dogs by the Nazi guards, Stalag 17's resident wiseguy Sefton ... Full Synopsis
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Bruce Eder, AMG Review
Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 was a new kind of war movie in 1953, a more realistic look at POW camp life than earlier POW movies (often British) had offered, featuring vivid depictions of larceny, betrayal, sadism, gallows humor, and a near-lynching of an innocent (though hardly guiltless) man. Wilder and his actors -- even though several are trapped in stock war-movie characterizations -- create a level ... Full Review
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William Holden
Sefton
Don Taylor
Lieutenant Dunbar
John Taylor
Otto Preminger
Oberst Von Scherbach, Von Scherbach
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