Overview:
The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisoners of war who were incarcerated in Colditz set out to prove their captors wrong.| 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, British Lion Films |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Français, Deutsch, Polski |
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Casts
- 11859: John Mills - Pat Reid
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- 96443: Frederick Valk - Kommandant
- 101943: Denis Shaw - Priem
- 30706: Lionel Jeffries - Harry Tyler
- 81010: Christopher Rhodes - 'Mac' McGill
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Crews
- 9915: Guy Hamilton - Director - Directing
- 2228925: Ted Sturgis - Second Assistant Director - Directing
- 2227683: John Shinerock - Clapper Loader - Camera
- 9915: Guy Hamilton - Writer - Writing
- 1197573: Ivan Foxwell - Writer - Writing
- 66961: William Douglas-Home - Writer - Writing
- 1197573: Ivan Foxwell - Producer - Production
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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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