The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisoners of war who were incarcerated in Colditz set out to prove their captors wrong.

John Mills
as Pat Reid

Eric Portman
as Colonel Richmond

Frederick Valk
as Kommandant

Denis Shaw
as Priem

Lionel Jeffries
as Harry Tyler

Christopher Rhodes
as 'Mac' McGill

Richard Wattis
as Richard Gordon

Ian Carmichael
as Robin Cartwright

Bryan Forbes
as Jimmy Winslow

Theodore Bikel
as Vandy
John Chard
Escape from Colditz Castle. Guy Hamilton directs and co-adapts the screenplay with Ivan Foxwell from the P.R. Reid novel of the same name. A story based on actual facts, it stars John Mills, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, Anton Diffring, Richard Wattis, Ian Carmichael and Eric Portman. Music is b...
CinemaSerf
This film does rather play to the stereotypes a bit - the plucky Brits; disorganised French; stoic Dutch and generally enthusiastic Poles - and as such should be treated more as a piece of fact-based entertainment rather than some sort of documentary-style analysis. It does still, however, demonstra...