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Situation Hopeless -- But Not Serious: Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt. With Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Robert Redford, Anita Höfer. During World War II, a lonely German air-raid warden captures two downed American airmen and keeps them prisoner in his basement way past the end of the war.
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- Comedy, War
- Gottfried Reinhardt
- 1966-01-14
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious is a 1965 oddball comedy film shot in black and white directed by Gottfried Reinhardt and starring Alec Guinness , Mike Connors and Robert Redford . It is based on the 1960 novel The Hiding Place by Robert Shaw .
While flying over Nazi Germany at the end of World War II, Capt. Hank Wilson (Robert Redford) and Sgt. Lucky Finder (Michael Connors) are forced to parachute into enemy territory. They land in a ...
- Comedy
- Alec Guinness
- Gottfried Reinhardt
A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended. Director Gottfried Reinhardt's 1965 comedy stars Alec Guinness, Robert Redford and Michael Connors.
During World War II, two Americans are forced to bail out and parachute into a small German town. Herr Frick, being equal parts patriotic and lonely, keeps them as prisoners of war in his bomb shelter.
- Gottfried Reinhardt, Walter Boos, Henri Sokal
- Alec Guinness
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Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious is a 1965 comedy film starring Alec Guinness, Mike Connors and Robert Redford. It is based on the novel The Hiding Place by Robert Shaw. The title is a variation of an old Viennese saying; "The situation is desperate but not serious."
