The War's Most Daring P.O.W. Escape
Director: Lewis Gilbert
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
88 min
Rating: 7.2/10
Released
Watch Trailer
Top Cast
Anthony Steel
Lt Geoffrey Ainsworth
Jack Warner
Capt Maddox
Robert Beatty
Lt Jim Reed
Anton Diffring
Capt Schultz
William Sylvester
Texas
Eddie Byrne
Joe
Movie Info
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Production Companies: Angel Productions
Countries: United Kingdom
Similar Movies
Wasp Network
2020-01-29
Men Behind the Sun
1988-12-01
Prisoners of Propaganda
1987-12-01
Return to Sandakan
1995-01-04
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016-03-04
Hannibal Brooks
1969-01-18
Hope Dies Last
2017-08-10
Wake Me When the War Is Over
1969-10-14
Victoria & Abdul
2017-09-13
Everest
2015-09-10
All the President's Men
1976-04-09
The Murderers Are Among Us
1946-10-15
Lawrence of Arabia
1962-12-11
Seven Years in Tibet
1997-09-12
Apollo 13
1995-06-30
The Killing Fields
1984-11-23
Stalag 17
1953-05-29
The Elephant Man
1980-10-09
The Patriot
2000-06-28
Young Woman and the Sea
2024-05-31User Reviews
What Others Said
CinemaSerf:
Lewis Gilbert has put together quite a good cast for this light-hearted wartime tale of POWs who find quite an innovative way of escaping and goon-baiting at the same time. Jack Warner ("Maddox") heads up the Allied side while Frederick Valk the Nazi one - and battle commences. The allies have a secret weapon - well, two actually. One is "Ainsworth" (Anthony Steel) who invents the other - "Albert" - a head made of papier-mâché that fits onto a collapsible torso built to fool the guards during their routine inspections. After a few mishaps, a bit of bribery, betrayal and some impatience, it finally falls to "Ainsworth" to try and escape... This has a strong cast - including Anton Diffring and Robert Beatty, and is written with serious intent but enough dark humour to flow well for 90 minutes, and I really quite enjoyed it.