The Colditz Story (1955)
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.
- Date of release
- 1955-01-25
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (63)
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- War, Drama
- Director
- Guy Hamilton
Casting
- John Mills — Pat Reid
- Eric Portman — Colonel Richmond
- Frederick Valk — Kommandant
- Denis Shaw — Priem
- Lionel Jeffries — Harry Tyler
- Christopher Rhodes — 'Mac' McGill
- Richard Wattis — Richard Gordon
- Ian Carmichael — Robin Cartwright
- Bryan Forbes — Jimmy Winslow
- Theodore Bikel — Vandy
- Eugene Deckers — La Tour
- Anton Diffring — Hauptmann Fischer
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