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Stalag 17 (1953)

★ 7.7 · 661 ratings on TMDB

The star-spangled, laugh-loaded salute to our P.W. heroes!

Stalag 17 poster★ 7.7

After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.

DirectorBilly Wilder
CastDon Taylor, Harvey Lembeck, Michael Moore, Neville Brand, Otto Preminger, Peter Graves
GenresComedy, Drama, War
The emergence reading

Stalag 17 keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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