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The Colditz Story

(1955)

January 25, 1955 1h 34m
68%
TMDB Score

Overview

The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisoners of war who were incarcerated in Colditz set out to prove their captors wrong.

Guy Hamilton

Director

Top Billed Cast

JM

John Mills

Pat Reid

EP

Eric Portman

Colonel Richmond

FV

Frederick Valk

Kommandant

DS

Denis Shaw

Priem

LJ

Lionel Jeffries

Harry Tyler

CR

Christopher Rhodes

'Mac' McGill

RW

Richard Wattis

Richard Gordon

IC

Ian Carmichael

Robin Cartwright

BF

Bryan Forbes

Jimmy Winslow

TB

Theodore Bikel

Vandy