Movie for a Sunday afternoon: "Stalag 17"(1953)

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[ReformationFan]

Today's feature is the film that gave Ronald and Nancy Reagan's best man the Oscar for Best Actor. A terrific classic about POWs in WWII and the precursor to the tv series "Hogan's Heroes".

[circlecity]

Peter Graves is the snitch.....

[Doogle]

...I think one of Holden best performances

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Loved that movie! My sister and I wanted to dig tunnels under all the outbuildings on our farm.

Mom said, ‘NO!!’ Meanie. :)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Mom was smart. My Dad’s best friend lost his son in a cave-in of a backyard hole/tunnel he was digging.

[Vision]

One of the great films.

[Michael.SF.]

Great movie. One of the best men-men-in-prison movies.

Hard to rate one over the other: Bridge over the River Kwai, The Great Escape and Stalag 17.

[Excellence]

Something to watch on a hot, high desert day.

[elcid1970]

The turning point:

“Two packs of cigarettes say Dunbar never makes it past the wire. Who’ll cover?”

[Diana in Wisconsin]

We almost lost my uncle in a snow fort cave in, too! Grandma saw his foot sticking out and she pulled him to safety. He was blue, but he survived. ;)

[jmacusa]

I’ve often thought that any American pow who held off sharing what he had as’’ Sefton’’aka Holden did with his fellow Americans was not only a first-class low life but I would have thought his fellow pows would have beaten the crap out of him and just taken his stuff.