Stalag 17
1953, NR, 120 min. Directed by Billy Wilder. Starring William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Peter Graves.
REVIEWED By Marjorie Baumgarten, Wed., June 27, 2001
Wilder depicts life in a World War II POW camp, with Holden as the cynical sergeant (a role for which he won an Oscar) and Preminger as the camp commandant.
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