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Stalag 17 (Special Collector's Edition)

William Holden (Actor), Don Taylor (Actor), Billy Wilder (Director) | Rated: NR (Not Rated) | Format: DVD

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Actors: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck
Directors: Billy Wilder
Writers: Billy Wilder, Donald Bevan, Edmund Trzcinski, Edwin Blum
Producers: Billy Wilder, William Schorr
Format: Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, NTSC, Import
Language: English, German
Subtitles: English
Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
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Studio: Paramount
Release Date: Mar 21 2006
Run Time: 120 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (41 customer reviews)

ASIN: B000CNESN0

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Black comedy and suspenseful action inside a German POW camp during World War II--a setting that was later borrowed for the TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes. The great director Billy Wilder adapted the hit stage play, applying his own wicked sense of humor to the apparently bleak subject matter. William Holden plays an antisocial grouse amid a gang of wisecracking though indomitable American prisoners. Because of his bitter cynicism, Holden is suspected by the others of being an informer to the Germans, an accusation he must deal with in his own crafty way. Holden, who had delivered a brilliant performance for Wilder in Sunset Boulevard, won the 1953 Best Actor Oscar for Stalag 17. Very much his equal, however, is Otto Preminger, an accomplished director himself, who plays the strict, sneering camp commandant. --Robert Horton

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5.0 out of 5 stars Caught this once again during the Memorial Day orgy of, Jun 10 2004

JOHN GODFREY (Milwaukee ,WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stalag 17 (VHS Tape)

World War II flicks. It is special & because of William Holton stands above the rest. I loved Steve McQueen & James Garner in The Great Escape & The Bridge over the River Kwai, also starring Holton, is epic. This movie is on a much smaller scale & is the best of the POW genre. Holton plays the disreputable Sgt. Sefton, a prisoner throughly despised & suspected of being the traitor in the POW camp responsible for escapees being caught & shot. How he singlehandedly reveals the Nazi in their midst is the movie's climax. Shot in glorious black & white adds to its grittiness realistic feel. I get caught up in it every time. It's on cable often, rent it or buy it cheap, here. Classic cinema from the 50's.

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5.0 out of 5 stars William Holden is the world's most underappreciated actor, May 28 2004

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This review is from: Stalag 17 (Full Screen) (DVD)

I know he won an Oscar for his performance in this role, but has any great Hollywood star been shunted to the background of history as much as William Holden? The list of films in which the man made his character memorable runs the gamut from Sunset Boulevard to Picnic to The Wild Bunch to Network. And while I don't think it's his overall best role, Stalag 17 will be remembered not just as a great film but the one that got Holden his due.

As the opening voiceover says (and I'm paraphrasing), there have been a lot of war movies about submarines, flying leathernecks, tank commandos, etc. but none about the P.O.W. camps. Leave it to the late great Billy Wilder to rectify that. Certainly there's no glory of war here, or at least not the kind we're accustomed to. Wilder creates an insular world of desperate and downtrodden men thrown together in confinement and heaps on the stark reality of war's "other side".

Holden is the barracks' con man/horse trader and, thanks to the already poor relationship with his fellows, the immediate suspect when they determine someone on the inside is spying on them for the Germans. It's a testament to how well the film has held up over the years that even after seeing it long ago (and thus knowing who the spy is) that I was still riveted in anticipation of how he would be found out.

The Germans are a combination of menace and comedy, the former exemplified by Otto Preminger as the camp commander and the latter by the great character actor Sig Rumann as Sgt. Schulz. This film was the inspiration for Hogan's Heroes, but it's best to separate them in your mind if you can and appreciate the complexities of the situations and the characters.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Holden's best, May 26 2004

chrisbean (Cambridge, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stalag 17 (Full Screen) (DVD)

I can't even think of words to describe how much I love this film; it's one of those rarities that combine suspense with humor in a way that is incredibly rare in films, and when you find it, stays with you. Every performance is a gem.

One question--is the dvd widescreen, or available that way? Thanks.

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3.0 out of 5 stars It passes time.
William Holden does a pretty good job or portraying a prisoner in a stalag during World War II.

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