STALAG 17 (Masters of Cinema)

Billy Wilder followed up his brilliant Ace in the Hole with this darkly comic adaptation of Donald Bevan's and Edmund Trzcinski's stage play about an assortment of American airmen getting through the days in a German POW camp at the twilight of the Second World War. William Holden stars as the laconic J.J. Sefton, a prisoner whose cynical and mercenary disposition leads his fellow prisoners to conjecture his role as an informant after two men are shot in an attempt to escape the compound. But who exactly is the real spy shuttling inside knowledge to the ever-watchful Oberst von Scherbach (director Otto Preminger in what would become an iconic screen-role)? Only after the film builds towards an explosive crescendo is the answer finally revealed. A commercial success upon its release in 1953, Stalag 17 retains its reputation as one of the finest World War II films of all-time. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to continue its association with the work of the eminently versatile Billy Wilder with the release of Stalag 17 appearing here for the first time on Blu-ray.

Special Features

Commentary: Richard Erdman (actor), Gil Stratton (actor), Donald Bevan (co-playwright), Documentaries: ''Stalag 17': From Reality to Screen'; 'The Real Heroes of Stalag XVII B', Interviews: Neil Sinyard (film scholar)

Actors: Neville Brand, Richard Erdman, Robert Strauss, Sig Rumann, Harvey Lembeck, Peter Graves, Don Taylor, William Holden, Otto Preminger

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 120 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitle Languages: English

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