Stalag 17 (Special Collector's Edition)
by Billy Wilder
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Actor: Don Taylor, Harvey Lembeck, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, William HoldenDirector: Billy Wilder
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Ernest Laszlo
Producer: Billy Wilder
Writer: Billy Wilder
Producer: William Schorr
Writer: Donald Bevan
Writer: Edmund Trzcinski
Writer: Edwin Blum
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; German (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Stalag 17 (Special Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: Best POW Movie Ever
Summary: 5 Stars
Stalag 17 is one of the best WW2 movies I own in my collection. It contains the grim reality of life in a POW camp with plenty of human drama,historical facts and even lots of humor. Otto Preminger is aces as the commandant.DVD Review: One The Great Films
Summary: 5 Stars
Billy Wilder shows his stuff in this movie written and directed by him. The script is both funny and tragic and exciting at the same time. A group of American POWs during WWII try to survive their incarceration and help one escape. William Holden stars as the cynical, smart and bold POW who outsmarts the Germans and many of the American POWs. The movie moves effortlessly without being claustrophobic. I've loved this movie since I was a kid and still find there is more to see every viewing. A must see!DVD Review: Heroes can be hidden
Summary: 5 Stars
Stalag 17 is a great performance and gives us an important perspective on why WWII was necessary.DVD Review: Stalag 17 DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
The purchase was easy as 1,2,3. No problems at all and the shipping was fast. Excellent product as described and absolutely NO complaints. Excellent seller from my experience.DVD Review: Good men, bad situation
Summary: 5 Stars
This one is a classic. A war movie, it takes place in a German POW camp, where U.S. Army Air Corps sergeants have been incarcerated. The plot revolves around Barracks 3 and how the Germans keep getting tipped off to American activities.
William Holden always does a great job in his roles but this one I think is his best. He plays Septon, a scammer who manages to get pretty much anything he wants with his schemes and his trading skills. He is also the natural choice when it comes to figuring out who the collaborater is.
Filmed in black and white this is one you really have to watch.
Description of Stalag 17 (Special Collector's Edition)
Two worthy Academy Award? nominees from 1950's Sunset Boulevard - actor William Holden and director Billy Wilder - reteamed three years later for the gripping World War II drama, Stalag 17. The result was another Best Director nomination for Wilder (his fourth), and the elusive Best Actor Oscar? for Holden. Holden portrays the jaded, scheming Sergeant J.J. Sefton, a prisoner at the notorious German prison camp, who spends his days dreaming up rackets and trading with the Germans for special privileges. But when two prisoners are killed in an escape attempt, it becomes obvious that there is a spy among the prisoners. Is it Sefton? Famed producer/director Otto Preminger tackles a rare acting role as the camp's commandant; actor Robert Strauss won a Supporting Actor nomination for his role as "Animal." Here's Wilder's powerful, acclaimed film classic -- now packed with never-before-seen special features, including audio commentary and "behind-the-scenes" featurettes.Black comedy and suspenseful action inside a German POW camp during World War II--a setting that was later borrowed for the TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes. The great director Billy Wilder adapted the hit stage play, applying his own wicked sense of humor to the apparently bleak subject matter. William Holden plays an antisocial grouse amid a gang of wisecracking though indomitable American prisoners. Because of his bitter cynicism, Holden is suspected by the others of being an informer to the Germans, an accusation he must deal with in his own crafty way. Holden, who had delivered a brilliant performance for Wilder in Sunset Boulevard, won the 1953 Best Actor Oscar for Stalag 17. Very much his equal, however, is Otto Preminger, an accomplished director himself, who plays the strict, sneering camp commandant. --Robert Horton
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