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Stalag 17 is a 1953 American war film directed by Billy Wilder. It tells the story of a group of American airmen confined with 40,000 prisoners in a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp "somewhere on the Danube ".
Stalag 17: Directed by Billy Wilder. With William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss. After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
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- Comedy, Drama, War
- Billy Wilder
- 1953-07
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Initially used to detain the hapless prisoners of Germany’s early blitzkriegs, Stalag Luft 17-B (Stalag Luft, short for Stammlager Luft, or prison camp for airmen, and 17-B because it was the second prison camp in the German 17th military district) was opened to American POWs in 1943.
Stalag 17, American war film, released in 1953, that was directed by Billy Wilder and featured an Academy Award -winning performance by William Holden. The film is set in a German prisoner-of-war camp, Stalag 17, during World War II.
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One night in 1944 in a German POW camp housing American airmen, two prisoners try to escape the compound and are quickly discovered and shot dead. Among the remaining men, suspicion grows that one...
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Stalag 17. When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer. 2,244 IMDb 8.0 2h 1953. X-Ray 13+.
