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Director:
Writers:
Donald Bevan (play) and
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Release Date:
10 August 1953 (Brazil) more
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Hilarious, heart-tugging! You'll laugh...you'll cry...you'll cheer William Holden in his great Academy Award role! (from reissue print ad)
Plot:
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German POW camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 4 nominations more
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(4 articles)
Walk Of Fame Honour For Mission: Impossible Star
 (From WENN. 23 October 2009, 6:26 PM, PDT)

Old Ass Movies: Escape ‘Stalag 17′
 (From FilmSchoolRejects. 13 September 2009, 11:17 AM, PDT)

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

William Holden ... Sgt. J.J. Sefton
Don Taylor ... Lt. James Dunbar
Otto Preminger ... Col. von Scherbach
Robert Strauss ... Stanislas Kasava
Harvey Lembeck ... Harry Shapiro
Richard Erdman ... Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman
Peter Graves ... Price
Neville Brand ... Duke
Sig Ruman ... Sgt. Johann Schulz
Michael Moore ... Manfredi
Peter Baldwin ... Johnson
Robinson Stone ... Joey
Robert Shawley ... 'Blondie' Peterson
William Pierson ... Marko the Mailman

Gil Stratton ... Clarence Harvey 'Cookie' Cook (as Gil Stratton Jr.)
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Runtime:
120 min | Germany:116 min
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)

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William LaChasse, had a bit part in the movie. He was hired by Paramount Pictures to be in several films after WWII. They bought him a SAG card and gave him a few lines in each film. Back then, there was no Screen Extras Guild. The real reason they made him an actor was a cheap way to use him as an Assistant Production Designer. He was actually a Prisoner of War for almost three years in Germany after being shot down in his B-17 by German Messcherschmidt Fighter pilot, Otto Peter Stammberger. The production depended heavily on his recollection of how the prison camp looked. He said it started out as a "B" movie, but after "New York" saw the dailies they gave Billy Wilder Carte Blanche. more
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Continuity: Stanislas "Animal" Kasava is falling on his butt into the mud, but his white underwear isn't getting dirty. Two minutes later running to see the Russians girls, he falls again and then he's muddy all over. more
Quotes:
[last lines]
Duke: [referring to Sefton's safe escape with Dunbar] Whadda ya know? The crud did it.
Shapiro: I'd like to know what made him do it.
Animal: Maybe he just wanted to steal our wire cutters. You ever think of that?
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Referenced in The Express (2008) more
Soundtrack:
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful.
what Hollywood Movies used to be......., 4 July 2008
10/10
Author: linkinem41 from United States

BILLY WILDER............ there's one thing u can count on when it comes to A WILDER movie.... thats to be ENTERTAINED.... or at least not bored...... STALAH 17 is one of the FINEST even maybe the BEST WAR Prisoner movie i have seen................ YES maybe WILDER movies aren't very REALISTIC........... and a bit tooo entertaining.... but heck with that.... thats what movies are for.... these were the days when Hollywood movies even great ones were entertaining............ Stalag 17 is an enjoyable movie..... and is also very satisfying at that..... 10/10

if u like this one then also watch THE GREAT ESCAPE, BRIDGE TO RIVER KWAI and COOL HAND Luke!!!

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