The Colditz Story (1955)

Movie Details

Original Title The Colditz Story

Original Language EN

Status Released

Popularity 0.4

Cast

John Mills

Pat Reid

Popularity: 1.0

Eric Portman

Colonel Richmond

Popularity: 4.5

Frederick Valk

Kommandant

Popularity: 0.2

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Denis Shaw

Priem

Popularity: 0.2

Lionel Jeffries

Harry Tyler

Popularity: 0.5

Christopher Rhodes

'Mac' McGill

Popularity: 0.7

Richard Wattis

Richard Gordon

Popularity: 0.8

Ian Carmichael

Robin Cartwright

Popularity: 0.5

Bryan Forbes

Jimmy Winslow

Popularity: 2.1

Theodore Bikel

Vandy

Popularity: 1.9

Eugene Deckers

La Tour

Popularity: 0.3

Anton Diffring

Hauptmann Fischer

Popularity: 0.5

Key Crew

Director Guy Hamilton

Writer Guy Hamilton, Ivan Foxwell, William Douglas-Home

Producer Ivan Foxwell

Music Francis Chagrin

Editor Peter Mayhew

Production

Ivan Foxwell Productions

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Backdrops

Keywords

escape military prisoners dramatic cheerful empathetic

Reviews from TMDB

John Chard 8/10

Nov 14, 2015

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 Portman. Music is b ... Read more

CinemaSerf 7/10

Nov 14, 2022

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, however, demonstra ... Read more