Stalag 17 Pt 10

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

[Nguli34689]

Yes, this is a great movie. My mother lived in Berlin, Nazi Germany, my dad under Japanese occupation in Harbin, China. My uncle was arrested by the SS and sent to Sachsenhausen for being outspoken. It was through Albert Goering's help that my mother's side of the family got the false papers they needed to escape the approaching Red Army. The did not want to be repatriated back to the Soviet Union. Fortunately, all of my family members in Germany escaped to America.

They all loved this movie!!

[sageofsuccess]

Price was better off with Sefton alive. It keep suspicion off him.

That being said, an informer never would have co-operated with the Germans so obviously as Sefton did. I can't blame Sefton for being the way he was.

[Jemmer1000]

homosexuality,,don't ask, don't telll

[trojanhorsealpha]

@greyfox37 Me too, I think his thoughts are "um, just how far is he going to take this if I let him?"

[daydaviddunn]

wow its a good thing hoffy was able to stand

RIGHT OUTSIDE OF HIS OFFICE

[Hijinata]

thats a very awsoem hiding spot :D

[Hiraghm]

@classicrocker2142 - wrong.

Everybody else were morons in the beginning, and were enlightened toward the end. They remained morons, however.

[Hiraghm]

@sageofsuccess - blame him? He's my hero. A real American.

[classicrocker2142]

Sefton was a moron at the beginning but he wises up toward the end.

[LongliveSnak2e]

@Nguli34689 A lie. A falsehood. An utter fabrication.