Stalag 17 Page #3

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Production: Paramount Home Video
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
NOT RATED
Year:
1953
120 min
999 Views


Stosh gives him a dirty look. Gets out of the bunk. He and

Harry move to the little iron stove. Triz is already

dismantling the pipe above the stove. Harry and Stosh lift

the stove and start inching it to one side.

Hoffy moving to a large bucket of water. It is a trick job:

a bucket within a bucket. He lifts out the shallow inner

part with the water. Hidden underneath are some civilian

clothes. He takes them out, crosses to Manfredi and Johnson.

(All the dialogue in this scene in whispers, of course.)

HOFFY:

Here's your civilian clothes, boys.

MANFREDI:

Okay, Hoffy.

Duke takes the clothes from Hoffy and starts stuffing them

into a small barrack bag.

HOFFY:

Bury your Army outfits before you

get out of the forest.

MANFREDI:

Okay.

HOFFY:

The compass is the top button on

your pants, Johnson.

JOHNSON:

Okay.

Sefton, propped up in his bunk, watches the proceedings with

a pitying little smile. He eyes wander to Harry and Stosh.

By now they have moved the stove some four feet to the side,

and start carefully lifting some sawed-off planks out of the

floor.

Blondie is standing watch by the blanket-covered window,

peeking out.

Price slips a wire hook down into the crack between a bunk

and the wall, fishes out a sheaf of papers and walks to

Manfredi and Johnson.

PRICE:

Anybody asks for your papers, you're

French laborers.

He hands them the papers.

PRICE:

Your map -- your Kraut money -- Swiss

francs.

MANFREDI:

Roger.

PRICE:

Now, let's hear it once more, boys.

JOHNSON:

We've been over it a hundred times.

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