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6.4/10   26 votes
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Writer:
Harold Medford (written by)
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Release Date:
11 May 1951 (Finland) more
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Plot:
In 1944, an American bomber squadron is tense and discontented from too many missions over France. Luck runs out for Capt... more | add synopsis
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Based on Army Training Film more (7 total)

Cast

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Mark Stevens ... Capt. Jerome 'Steve' Stevens
Alex Nicol ... Sgt. Al Mitchell
Robert Douglas ... Col. von Broeck
Don Taylor ... Lt. Frank Webster
Gig Young ... Capt. Reiner
Joyce Holden ... German nurse
Suzanne Dalbert ... Theresa
Malú Gatica ... French entertainer (as Malu Gatica)

James Best ... Sgt. Ralph Phelps
Richard Carlyle ... Brooklyn
Steven Geray ... Jean
Johnny Sands ... Sgt. Crawford (as John Sands)
Tony Christian ... Gundlach
James R. Young ... Russ Johnson (as James Young)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Prisoner of War (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
90 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Remake of a WWII Army Air Force Training film, Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944). more
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Based on Army Training Film, 1 October 2005
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Author: malcolmgsw from london

As one previous reviewer briefly mentioned this is based on an army training film.The film was made in 1944 by the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Film Unit and called "Resisting Enemy Interrogation"(REI)The main difference between the two films is that the beginning and end are completely different.REI was a training film and it ended with a lecture from Lloyd Nolan.After being told that the raid had been a disaster he spends the last 5 minutes telling his audience"NEVER TALK".In this film there is about half an hour of daring do with a more positive outcome clearly more appropriate to a post war film.However for the time when the airmen are captive this film borrows almost in its entirety the script of REI.If you have a video/DVD machine then you can do what i did.Run one sequence of REI and then one sequence of this film.The words i assure you are identical.What i find most intriguing is the proposition that captured airmen could be falling for the tricks highlighted in this film and in REI.Were the crew so naive and where the Germans so sophisticated and urbane and clever?

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