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Box office. $10,000,000. 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 ". Their compound holds 630 sergeants representing many different aircrew positions, but the film focuses ...
A classic Billy Wilder film about a group of American POWs in World War II who suspect one of them is a German informer. William Holden stars as the black marketeer who tries to find the real spy and clear his name.
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- Comedy, Drama, War
- Billy Wilder
- 1953-07
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the classic war comedy film Stalag 17, directed by Billy Wilder. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, and more on IMDb.
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Apr 9, 2020 · Watch the thrilling climax of Stalag 17, a classic war film about a spy in a German POW camp, starring William Holden and Peter Graves.
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Stalag 17 survives the jump from stage to screen with flying colors, thanks to Billy Wilder's typically sterling direction and a darkly funny script. One night in 1944 in a German POW camp housing ...
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- William Holden
- Billy Wilder
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A classic war comedy about a group of American POWs in a German camp who suspect one of them is a spy. The film follows their attempts to expose the traitor and escape from the camp in 1944.
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. It tracks the daily boredom and nighttime escape attempts of the resident U.S. airmen.
