Albert R.N. (1953)
The War's Most Daring P.O.W. Escape
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
- Date of release
- 1953-11-23
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (12)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- War, History
- Director
- Lewis Gilbert
Casting
- Anthony Steel — Lt Geoffrey Ainsworth
- Jack Warner — Capt Maddox
- Robert Beatty — Lt Jim Reed
- Anton Diffring — Capt Schultz
- William Sylvester — Texas
- Eddie Byrne — Joe
- Guy Middleton — Bongo
- Paul Carpenter — Fred
- Michael Balfour — Hank
- Moultrie Kelsall — Henry
- Frederick Valk — Camp Kommandant
- Frederick Schiller — Herman
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