Stalag 17
(1953)
Cast:
William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck,
Richard Erdman, Peter Graves, Neville Brand, Sig Rumann, Ross Bagdasarian,
Gil Strattton, Jr.
Director: Billy Wilder
Oscar: Best Actor (William Holden)
Very entertaining movie, based on a Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski play,
of American P.O.W.s held by the Germans being thwarted at every turn in their
attempts at resistance and escape by a stoolie inside the barracks.
William Holden does an excellent job as the barracks's cynical hustler
who is accused of being the stoolie. Harvey Lembeck and Robert Strauss
provide a great deal of comic relief as two very close buddies with Lembeck
always trying to cheer-up Strauss who has an obsession with the movie star
Betty Grable.
Preminger, of course, plays the role of the commandant of the prisoner of
war camp.
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