Stalag 17 Pt 2

This is a great WWII movie about American airmen in a POW camp during WWII. Stalag 17, this is what spwaned the great show Hogan’s Heroes, is at first a black comedy of sorts then changes to a bit of action as the men try to find the spy in there ranks and to save a Lieutenant Dunbar from the SS. This movie shows what life was really like for the POWs in Stalags all over during the War. While some of this many not be true, like any other war film, this is taken from personal experence. Also this is one of the all time greats of the POW movies, it’s ranked up there along with The Great Escape and The Bridge on the River Kwai, among the greatest World War II Prisoner of War films.

This movie stars: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck and others

The movie was made/released in 1953, but the Broadway play was going in 1951.

This movie was adapted by Billy Wilder and Edwin Blum from the Broadway play by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski, who themselfs both were POWs during WWII.

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• WWII
• POW films
• Hogan’s Heroes
• Stalag 17
• William Holden
• Billy Wilder
• Don Taylor
• movie adapted from play

[CavesWoman]

There is a reason for the comment about "White Christmas"...my father in law was in the real Stalag 17 and he said that they would play that song over and over and over again to torture them. He could never listen to that song again after he got home.

[Benedanti]

I keep waiting hear Schulz say "I know nothing, I see nothing...nothing!"

[js8533]

"im tellin you animal these Nazi's ain't kosher"

[HeinzErhardtFan]

@adtrine It was the Airforce and you can also see it on the movie Gesprengte Ketten in english The great escape

[smartalek65]

Always liked this movie. Otto Preminger (a fine director) plays a very convincing camp Kommandant.

[musika319]

Could someone tell me why the russian women are stuck in this POW camp. b/c I have to write a report 3 historical films (this being one of them) and all the wwii books I read talks about hitler and why the war started and nothing about them. thank you

[trojanhorsealpha]

"or perhaps you would suggest we haul in 21 cannons from the Eastern Front ..." reply "Sure, one more little thing to hasten the day that swastika flag goes down in flames and you're standing on a trap door with a rope around your neck"

[lifelessperson1993]

I hate it when people preach the Geneva convention, be it Americans, British, or Germans. No one pays attention to it unless their lives are at stake so it's meaningless.

[edtrine]

Are the guards SS or are they German airforce?

[kolleamm]

why are the SS Guards so nice? Come on!