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The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
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Audiences 66GoodWatch 70
IMDb6.6
Running time
1 h 28 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 war movies, −30 min on the typical 118
typical 11888Half of all war movies run 103–135 min.
Reach
Streams in 3 countries, rent or buy in 2 more
Released
1953
November 23, 1953
73 years ago
Genres
WarHistoryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United Kingdom
Rated
- GUnited States
16 of 16
Anthony SteelLt Geoffrey Ainsworth
Jack WarnerCapt Maddox
Robert BeattyLt Jim Reed
Anton DiffringCapt Schultz
William SylvesterTexas
Eddie ByrneJoe
Guy MiddletonBongo
Paul CarpenterFred
Michael BalfourHank
Moultrie KelsallHenry
Frederick ValkCamp Kommandant
Frederick SchillerHerman
Peter JonesSchoolie
Geoffrey HibbertCutter
Walter GotellFeldwebel
Peter SwanwickObergefreiter
Directing · 1
- Lewis Gilbert Director
Camera · 1
- Humphrey Cull Clapper Loader
Sound · 1
- Eric Cass Boom Operator
Other crew · 1
- Jack Asher Cinematography
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