Stalag 17
Rated NR
120 minutes
1953
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 of their own is a spy for the Germans. All eyes fall on Sgt. Sefton (William Holden) who everybody knows frequently makes exchanges with German guards for small luxuries. To protect himself from a mob of his enraged fellow inmates, Sgt. Sefton resolves to find the true traitor within their midst.
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Film Credits
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Donald Bevan, Edmund Trzcinski, Billy Wilder and Edwin Blum
Producer: Billy Wilder
Cast: William Holden, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Don Taylor, Harvey Lembeck, Richard Erdman, Peter Graves, Neville Brand, Sig Ruman, Michael Moore, Peter Baldwin, Robinson Stone, Robert Shawley, William Pierson, Gil Stratton and Jay Lawrence