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7.2/10   78 votes
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Director:
Steve Gethers
Writers:
Steve Gethers (writer)
Jack Stoneley (book)
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Release Date:
28 October 1985 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | War more
Plot:
This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941. Getting no help from the underground, she sets up her own rescue mission. | add synopsis
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User Comments:
almost credible but not quite more (2 total)

Cast

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Dyan Cannon ... Jenny Baines
Elke Sommer ... Eva Gruenberg
Robert Hardy ... Klein
Patrick Ryecart ... Steinhardt
Nigel Hawthorne ... Colonel

Christopher Cazenove ... Capt. Preston
Richard Todd ... Gen. Benjamin Cutler

Hartmut Becker ... Karl Koenig

John Moulder-Brown
Sion Tudor Owen
Denis Lill ... Johns
Nicholas Courtney ... Medical Officer
Garfield Morgan ... Wilford
Michael Elphick ... Schumann
Oscar Quitak ... Col. Weiss
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
198 min
Country:
USA | UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:PG
Filming Locations:
England, UK
Company:
Columbia Pictures Television more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Nicholas Courtney was first interviewed for the part of the Colonel. more
Movie Connections:
References Force 10 from Navarone (1978) more

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10 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
almost credible but not quite, 16 June 2005
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Author: pauls-room from United Kingdom

I suppose events happened and people acted in a way during World War II that seem incredible now. And if we didn't occasionally have some evidence for them, we would hardly believe them possible. So looking for your son, who's a British pilot and has been shot down in Germany, seems not only foolhardy but something Hollywood might dream up. On the other hand it's also very courageous. There's the usual bad-mannered Germans and the correct Englishmen. The sets and the actors are fine, but I think what stretched my credulity a bit was the way Dyan Cannon still wore make-up when she was supposed to be in disguise. I doubt if the average prisoner-of-war wore lipstick, except in the shows they put on. The suspicion that it was made for the American market was always in my mind.

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