Stalag 17
The star-spangled, laugh-loaded salute to our P.W. heroes!
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 26, 2017
- Originally Released: 1953
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | William Holden, Don Taylor & Otto Preminger | |
Performer: | Neville Brand, Peter Graves, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck & Sig Ruman | |
Directed by | Billy Wilder | |
Edited by | Doane Harrison & George Tomasini | |
Screenwriting by | Billy Wilder & Edwin Blum | |
Composition by | Franz Waxman | |
Cinematography by | Ernest Laszlo | |
Art Direction by | Hal Pereira & Franz Bachelin | |
Produced by | Billy Wilder |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1953 -
Best Actor: William Holden
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
When escape is the only option, you do whatever you can to make it happen. This is one exciting escape drama.
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Cinema Sight
A lusty comedy-melodrama, loaded with bold, masculine humor and as much of the original's uninhibited earthiness as good taste and the Production Code permit.
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Variety
Rating: 3.5/4 --
One could make an argument that, among 20th century directors, few were more versatile than Billy Wilder.
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ReelViews
Rating: 4/5 --
Director Billy Wilder superbly balances elements of drama, satire and comedy, and captures the claustrophobia of camp life.
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Radio Times
The resulting letdown is terrific, but along the way there is some of the funniest men-at-loose-ends interplay that Wilder has ever put on film.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/5 --
Simultaneously fiery and farcical, it's a fitting final third for Wilder's 1950s hat trick that also includes Sunset Blvd and Ace in the Hole
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The Skinny
Rating: 4/5 --
Teens may enjoy this exceptional, exciting drama.
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Common Sense Media
Product Description:
Billy Wilder's adaptation of the Broadway hit stars William Holden as the cynical Sefton. Set in the eponymous German prison camp during WWII, the director's broad, black comedy focuses on a group of decidedly unheroic prisoners. While they spend most of their time trying to entertain each other with comedy routines and pin-ups, they also occasionally entertain thoughts of escape. But escape is the last thing on the mind of the hard, calculating Sefton, a wheeler-dealer who's salted away a stash of creature comforts which are the envy of the barracks. When a couple of prisoners are killed while attempting to escape, Sefton collects the money he won by betting against their success, and many believe that it was he who informed the Germans. After a new prisoner, Lt. Dunbar (Don Taylor) talks openly about having bombed a German ammo train, he's immediately subjected to a harsh interrogation by sadistic commandant Oberst von Scherbach (Otto Preminger). Their suspicions confirmed, the prisoners take revenge against Sefton. A film whose depiction of American G.I.s as ordinary, even selfish, people probably seemed seemed edgier in the 1950s than it does now, it remains a durable entertainment, with incisive performances by Holden and Preminger.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 19,841
- UPC: 032429283948
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