Captured!

Captured! (1933)

While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.

Date of release
1933-08-19
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 9m
Genres
Drama, Romance, War
Director
Roy Del Ruth

Casting

Interesting facts

Captured! is a 1933 American pre-Code war drama film about World War I prisoners of war in a German camp. The film was directed by Roy Del Ruth and stars Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Captured! was based on the short story "Fellow Prisoners" (1930) by Sir Philip Gibbs.

Production

Captured! was shot largely on the Warner Bros. backlot in Hollywood with a large cast and crew of 1,500. A total of 75 aircraft were assembled, including Keystone LB-5 bombers that portrayed the German World War I Gotha bombers, located at the airfield near the POW camp. The location photography took place at the Grand Central Airport in Burbank, California.

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