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The Colditz Story

1955 · 1h 34m · War, Drama

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.

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Cast

• John Mills as Pat Reid
• Eric Portman as Colonel Richmond
• Frederick Valk as Kommandant
• Denis Shaw as Priem
• Lionel Jeffries as Harry Tyler
• Christopher Rhodes as 'Mac' McGill
• Richard Wattis as Richard Gordon
• Ian Carmichael as Robin Cartwright
• Bryan Forbes as Jimmy Winslow
• Theodore Bikel as Vandy
• Eugene Deckers as La Tour
• Anton Diffring as Hauptmann Fischer

Details

Director

Guy Hamilton

Released

January 25, 1955

Runtime

1h 34m

Genres

War, Drama

Studio

Ivan Foxwell Productions and British Lion Films

Status

Released

TMDB score

6.8 / 10 from 63 votes