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Release Date:
12 January 1971 (West Germany)
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During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland. full summary | add synopsis
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British Army
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U Boat
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Irish
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Motorcycle Cop
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Soldier
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1 win
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Good film but a disappointing sop to 'sex'
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Brian Keith | ... | Captain Jack Connor |
| Helmut Griem | ... | Kapitänleutnant Willi Schlueter |
| Ian Hendry | ... | Major Perry |
| Jack Watson | ... | General Kerr |
| Patrick O'Connell | ... | Sergeant Major Cox |
| Horst Janson | ... | Leutnant Neuchl |
| Alexander Allerson | ... | Leutnant Wolff |
| John Abineri | ... | Hauptmann Kranz |
 | Constantine Gregory | ... | Lieutenant Hall (as Constantin De Goguel) |
| Tom Kempinski | ... | Leutnant Schmidt |
| Eric Allan | ... | Leutnant Hochbauer |
| Caroline Mortimer | ... | A.T.S. Sergeant Bell |
| Mary Larkin | ... | Corporal Jean Watt |
| Gregg Palmer | ... | Leutnant Berger |
| Michael Sheard | ... | Ingenieur-Offizier Unger |
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Rated PG for violence, language and brief sensuality.
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108 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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UK:12 (re-rating) (1998) |
UK:AA (original rating) |
Canada:14A (video rating) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:16 |
Sweden:11 |
USA:GP (original rating) |
USA:PG (re-rating) (1999)
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Anachronisms: The Jeep used is a civilian CJ 3B model, first introduced in 1953.
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SYMPHONY NO.3 E-FLAT MAJOR, OP.55 -- 1st & 2nd Movements
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I have watched this film a few ti mes and think it is quite good, but the one thing that stands out to me (a female ) is the scene where Connor and the 'postmistress' are reading the letters and begin to think they may be a code. WHY ARE THEY IN BED?
I know it's not very explicit, and I'm not a raving feminist, but why was that scene shot that way? Was it because in the 1970s everything had to have sex in it?
Connor was not particularly physically attractive, was a lot older than the girl and there had been no previous (or subsequent) hint of a 'thing' between them, so why? It adds nothing to the plot yet tends to imply that all women in the forces were kind of official prostitutes.
Only a small point about a pretty pointless detail but it niggles.