Stalag 17 (Blu-ray)

The star-spangled, laugh-loaded salute to our P.W. heroes!
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Blu-ray Details

  • Run Time: 2 hours
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: September 26, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1953
  • Label: Paramount

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1953 - Best Actor: William Holden

Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 13,164
Rating: 3.5/4 -- One could make an argument that, among 20th century directors, few were more versatile than Billy Wilder. Full Review
ReelViews
Aug 14, 2007
Rating: 4/5 -- Teens may enjoy this exceptional, exciting drama. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Dec 28, 2010
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 Full Review
The Skinny
Jul 28, 2015
A raucous, cynical but compelling comedy-drama about the life led by American soldiers in a German prison camp in 1944. Not recommended for the kiddies. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Jan 7, 2020
As rowdily entertaining on the screen as it was on the stage. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Dec 5, 2008
The good greatly outweighs the bad, particularly in the profile of Holden's character, a pragmatic, self-centered cynic whose heroism, when it is finally called upon, appears to come from deep within the barriers he has placed inside of himself.
Hollywood Reporter
May 13, 2006
Rating: 4/5 -- Director Billy Wilder superbly balances elements of drama, satire and comedy, and captures the claustrophobia of camp life. Full Review
Radio Times
Dec 6, 2013

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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  • UPC: 032429283986
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