The Colditz Story (film)
The Colditz Story is a 1955 prisoner of war film starring John Mills and Eric Portman. It is based on the book written by P.R. Reid, a British army officer who was imprisoned in Oflag IV-C, Colditz Castle, in Germany during the Second World War.
Plot
British,
French, Dutch and Polish Prisoners of War (POWs), of many nationalities who have
repeatedly tried to escape are sent to Oflag IV-C, a supposedly secure castle
or schloss, in Saxony in the heart of Nazi Germany during World War II. At first
the different nationalities try to initiate their own plans until the Senior British
Officer (SBO) steps in, and suggests co-operation between the different contingents.
There then follow a number of escapes; some successful, some not.
A BBC TV series also based on Reid's book followed in 1972, and starred David McCallum, Robert Wagner, Jack Hedley and Edward Hardwicke.
Cast
John
Mills - Pat Reid
Eric Portman - Colonel Richmond
Frederick Valk - Kommandant
Denis Shaw - Priem
Lionel Jeffries - Harry Tyler
Christopher Rhodes
- 'Mac' McGill
Richard Wattis - Richard Gordon
Ian
Carmichael - Robin Cartwright
Bryan Forbes - Jimmy Winslow
Theodore Bikel - Vandy
Eugene Deckers - La Tour
Anton Diffring - Fischer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Douglas Argent - British officer
Jean Bacon - French orderly
Leo Bieber - German interpreter
A.
Blichewicz - Polish officer
Terence Brook - British officer
Arthur Butcher
- Polish colonel
Frank Coburn - British officer
Eric Corrie - British
officer
John Corrie - British officer
Guy Deghy - German soldier
B. Dolinski - Polish officer
Jean Driant - French orderly
Carl Duering
- German officer
Anthony Faramus - British officer
John G. Heller -
German guard (as John Heller)
Eric Lander - British officer
Ludwik Lawinski
- Franz Josef
Claude Le Saché - French interpreter (as Claud Le Sache)
Guido Lorraine - Polish officer
Kenneth Midwood - British officer
Peter Myers - British officer
Rudolph Offenbach - Dutch colonel
Keith
Pyott - French colonel
Zygmunt Rewkowski - Polish interpreter
Frederick
Schiller - German soldier
Witold Sikorski - Polish officer
Peter Swanwick
- Lutyens (as Peter Swannick)
David Yates - Dick
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