Advantages: Brilliant and Realistic tale of allied POWs courage and ingenuity inside Colditz Caslte. Disadvantages: No special features - Bit of a shame - But it is an old film.
The Colditz Story (1954)
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Staring John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes.
Format Black & White, PAL Language English Region Region 2 Aspect Ratio 1.33:1 Number of discs 1 Classification Universal
Studio Warner Home Video DVD Release Date 18 April 2005 Run Time 93 minutes DVD Features Original theatrical trailer
During WW2 many allied soldiers, mainly airman, fell into the hands of ... ...the different theatres. Depending on where you were captured you would be put into the nearest POW camp. However Colditz Castle was a POW camp with a difference. This was reserved especially for those who had attempted previous escape attempts from other camps in and around Germany. And had therefore proved themselves a menace to the German war effort. Colditz Castle was thought to be, by the Germans and some of its prisoners, impossible to escape ...
kozy_uk 21.06.2006
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Advantages: Family film with limited violence Disadvantages: None
One of the all time great British war films. Sir John Mills plays Pat Reid and the film is based on Pat Reid's real wartime experiences as noted in a couple of published books from the 1940's/50's. As such the events from the arrival of British POWs at the Colditz prison camp, Mill's character was one of the first of the British to be incarcerated in Colditz Castle. Colditz is the unescapable prison camp for all POWs who have escaped from other Stalags.
... ...the allied nations, how the Poles and French help the British in the early day, and how the friendships develop. As such the film focuses on all nationalities escape attempts be they succesful or unsuccessful, with perhaps the most unusual escape coming from a game of leap frog. The film also unusally manages to show that all German guards and officers were not Nazi tyrants.
The Colditz Story is a feel good film intermixed with some sadness but ...
mrtimharry 17.10.2007 (18.10.2007)
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Production Year: 1960 - War - Director: Lewis Gilbert - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Laurence Naismith, Carl Mohner, Dana Wynter, Kenneth More, Karel Stepanek
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