Stalag 17
Summary:
The scene is a German POW camp, sometime during the mid-1940s. Stalag 17, exclusively populated by American sergeants, is overseen by sadistic commandant Oberst Von Schernbach (Otto Preminger) and the deceptively avuncular sergeant Schultz (Sig Ruman). The inmates spend their waking hours circumventing the boredom of prison life; at night, they attempt to arrange escapes. When two ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
William Holden - (Sefton)
Don Taylor - (Lieutenant Dunbar)
Otto Preminger - (Von Scherbach)
Robert Strauss - ("Animal" Stosh)
Harvey Lembeck - (Harry Shapiro)
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Review:
Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 was a new kind of war movie in 1953, a more realistic look at POW camp life than earlier POW movies (often British) had offered, featuring vivid depictions of larceny, betrayal, sadism, gallows humor, and a near-lynching of an innocent (though hardly guiltless) man. Wilder and his actors -- even though several are ... Continue >>
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