Plot

Set in an Italian P.O.W. camp during World War II, this conventional escape drama shines the most in the portrayals of the various prisoners. Richard Todd is Lt. Col. David Baird, intensely and single-mindedly set on escaping. Bernard Lee is Lt. Col. Huxley who is the careful senior British officer with a view of the entire situation. Michael Wilding plays the deceptively dashing Major Charles Marquand, and some comic relief is provided by Dennis Price, an actor-prisoner more devoted to his production of Hamlet than leaving before the curtain goes up. The hitch in the plans to escape is insidious -- there is a traitor among the prisoners and before they can succeed, they have to find him. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Cast

• Richard Todd - Lt. Col. David Baird
• Bernard Lee - Lt. Col Huxley
• Michael Wilding, Sr. - Maj. Charles Marquand
• Richard Attenborough - Capt. Bunter Phillips
• Dennis Price - Capt. Rupert Callender

Donald Houston - Capt. Roger Byford; William Franklyn - Capt. Tony Long; Vincent Ball - Capt. Pat Foster; Peter Arne - Capitano Benucci; Terry Alexander; Michael Caine; Hazel Court; Lee Patterson; John Paul; Ronnie Stevens; Billie Whitelaw

Credit

Don Chaffey - Director, Peter Graham Scott - Director, Francis Chagrin - Composer (Music Score), Arthur Grant - Cinematographer, Colin Lesslie - Producer, Bryan Forbes - Screenwriter, Michael A. Gilbert - Screenwriter, Frank Harvey Jr. - Screenwriter, Michael Francis Gilbert - Book Author

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