Word: stalag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wall make me lose face," explained the dragon. "Halvud students write Stalag 38, write O.K. Collal, write Yankee Go Home...
...were not for that squirrel-headed general, Harry would be in Stalag 17 or better in Yakutsk digging for iron...
...once, in 1953, Bill broke through. In the midst of a box-office slump, three Holden pictures-Stalag 17, The Moon Is Blue, Escape from Fort Bravo-hit hard. And for Stalag, in which he played a scrounging U.S. sergeant in a German prison camp, Holden won an Oscar as the year's best actor. He deserved it. The boy next door had become the type in the back room, with rat-grey skin and rat-quick eyes and a furtive softness in the way he moved; for the first time, Bill had almost managed to lose himself...
...polar-cold morning of Jan. 28, 1945, 2nd Lieut. Jim Weis of the U.S. Army Air Forces scowled bleakly at his barbed-wire confines and remarked to some fellow P.W.s: "Maybe I'm dead and don't know it." For some 10,000 captured Allied airmen in Stalag Luft III. a German prisoner-of-war camp in East Prussia, hell began that night...
...Best actor: William Holden, for his portrayal of the heel turned hero in Stalag 17. Holden's versatile performances in two other good pictures, The Moon Is Blue and Escape from Fort Bravo, probably contributed...