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Posted on 2/9/10 at 5:40 am
Posted on 2/9/10 at 5:40 am
Tuesday 9 PM
Stalag 17
A POW camp in Germany, 1944. Somebody is tipping off the Germans to GI escape attempts, and everybody in Barracks 4 knows who the informer is: It has to be the cynical camp hustler Sgt. Sefton, who lives very comfortably by trading with the German guards and making less-than-generous deals with his fellow prisoners.
Just one problem: everybody is wrong. And now it's up to Sefton to uncover the real informer, preferably without getting the whole barracks shot in the process.
Another classic from writer-director Billy Wilder. While the low comedy scenes have not aged well, Stalag 17's black humor would be a major influence on both Catch-22 and M*A*S*H, among others. The film would be directly reworked for TV as Hogan's Heroes, which is essentially Stalag 17 crossed with The Great Escape.
William Holden won a Best Actor Oscar as the sleazy but ultimately redeemable con man Sefton, at first looking out for #1 but eventually forced to become a hero in spite of himself. And in a brilliant stroke, Wilder cast fellow director Otto Preminger as the camp commandant. Preminger steals every scene he's in, and even nabbed a supporting Oscar nomination for himself.
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Watch for the prisoner who reads the letter from his wife and keeps saying "I believe it". That's Edmund Trzcinski, who was a prisoner in the real Stalag 17 and later co-wrote the Broadway play the film was based on.
Edmund Trzcinski (left)
Stalag 17
A POW camp in Germany, 1944. Somebody is tipping off the Germans to GI escape attempts, and everybody in Barracks 4 knows who the informer is: It has to be the cynical camp hustler Sgt. Sefton, who lives very comfortably by trading with the German guards and making less-than-generous deals with his fellow prisoners.
Just one problem: everybody is wrong. And now it's up to Sefton to uncover the real informer, preferably without getting the whole barracks shot in the process.
Another classic from writer-director Billy Wilder. While the low comedy scenes have not aged well, Stalag 17's black humor would be a major influence on both Catch-22 and M*A*S*H, among others. The film would be directly reworked for TV as Hogan's Heroes, which is essentially Stalag 17 crossed with The Great Escape.
William Holden won a Best Actor Oscar as the sleazy but ultimately redeemable con man Sefton, at first looking out for #1 but eventually forced to become a hero in spite of himself. And in a brilliant stroke, Wilder cast fellow director Otto Preminger as the camp commandant. Preminger steals every scene he's in, and even nabbed a supporting Oscar nomination for himself.
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Watch for the prisoner who reads the letter from his wife and keeps saying "I believe it". That's Edmund Trzcinski, who was a prisoner in the real Stalag 17 and later co-wrote the Broadway play the film was based on.
Edmund Trzcinski (left)
Posted on 2/9/10 at 6:54 am to Kafka
Stalag 17 is a classic and one of my all time favorite oldies!!! :dude:
Hogan Heroes was obviously based on this movie too bad it wasn't more of a serious tv show even though it was enjoyable as a comedy.
Hogan Heroes was obviously based on this movie too bad it wasn't more of a serious tv show even though it was enjoyable as a comedy.
Posted on 2/9/10 at 7:58 am to Freshly71
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Stalag 17 is a classic and one of my all time favorite oldies!!!
This.
Just an awesome film.
Posted on 2/9/10 at 9:24 am to Freauxzen
hid in the water tower. who'd a thunk it?!
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