Overview:
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.| Status: | Released (1955-01-25) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 2 BAFTA 2 nominations total |
| Screen: | P.R. Reid, Guy Hamilton, Ivan Foxwell |
| Productions: | Ivan Foxwell Productions |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | Deutsch, English, Français, Polski |
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Casts
- 11859: John Mills - Pat Reid
- 96994: Eric Portman - Colonel Richmond
- 96443: Frederick Valk - Kommandant
- 101943: Denis Shaw - Priem
- 30706: Lionel Jeffries - Harry Tyler
- 81010: Christopher Rhodes - 'Mac' McGill
- 85935: Richard Wattis - Richard Gordon
Crews
- 9915: Guy Hamilton - Director - Directing
- 2228925: Ted Sturgis - Second Assistant Director - Directing
- 2227683: John Shinerock - Clapper Loader - Camera
- 1197573: Ivan Foxwell - Writer - Writing
- 9915: Guy Hamilton - Writer - Writing
- 1197573: Ivan Foxwell - Producer - Production
- 66961: William Douglas-Home - Writer - Writing
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Reviews
John Chard
Review text:
Escape from Colditz Castle. Guy Hamilton directs and co-adapts the screenplay with Ivan Foxwell from the P.R. Reid novel of the same name. A story based on actual facts, it stars John Mills, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, Anton Diffring, Richard Wattis, Ian Carmichael and Eric Por ....
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This film does rather play to the stereotypes a bit - the plucky Brits; disorganised French; stoic Dutch and generally enthusiastic Poles - and as such should be treated more as a piece of fact-based entertainment rather than some sort of documentary-style analysis. It does still, ho ....
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