

“The star-spangled, laugh-loaded salute to our P.W. heroes!”
After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.
Directed by Billy Wilder
User score
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Released
May 29, 1953
2h 0m
English, German, Russian
Budget → Revenue
$1.7M → $10M

William Holden
J.J. Sefton

Don Taylor
James Dunbar

Otto Preminger
Oberst von Scherbach

Robert Strauss
Stanislaus 'Animal' Kuzawa

Harvey Lembeck
Harry Shapiro

Richard Erdman
Hoffy Hoffman

Peter Graves
Frank Price

Neville Brand
Duke

Sig Ruman
Johann Schulz

Michael Moore
Manfredi

Peter Baldwin
Johnson

Robinson Stone
Joey
Robert Shawley
Blondie Peterson

William Pierson
Marko

Gil Stratton
Clarence Cook
Jay Lawrence
Bagradian

Erwin Kalser
Geneva Man
Edmund Trzcinski
Triz Trzcinski