The Colditz Story

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.

Cast

John Mills

John Mills

as Pat Reid

Eric Portman

Eric Portman

as Colonel Richmond

Frederick Valk

Frederick Valk

as Kommandant

Denis Shaw

Denis Shaw

as Priem

Lionel Jeffries

Lionel Jeffries

as Harry Tyler

Christopher Rhodes

Christopher Rhodes

as 'Mac' McGill

Richard Wattis

Richard Wattis

as Richard Gordon

Ian Carmichael

Ian Carmichael

as Robin Cartwright

Bryan Forbes

Bryan Forbes

as Jimmy Winslow

Theodore Bikel

Theodore Bikel

as Vandy

Reviews

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...

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