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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 (1953) starring William Holden, Otto Preminger, Don Taylor and Neville Brand, returns to remind television how to tell war stories...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Stalag 17, the 1953 prisoner-of-war movie to end all prisoner-of-war movies. William Holden won an Academy Award for this...
...captors, blackmailing them into submission with dark hints that if anything goes wrong at the camp, Hitler will send them all marching off to the Russian front. So they allow the captives to print money, smoke their cigars-to do everything in short but escape. It's slapstick Stalag 17, but just funny enough to keep viewers happily...
...hopeless martinet-like Alec Guinness in Bridge on the River Kwai. He even establishes a gentlemanly rapport with the camp's commandant, who at heart is as decent as Erich von Stroheim in Grand Illusion. His troubles are with his own men-tough guys like William Holden in Stalag 17, wise guys like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape, irrepressible Englishmen like Dirk Bogarde in The Password Is Courage. But Ryan is in this-man's-army, and in the end he proves it by freeing singlehanded all 964 prisoners after joining in the silent murder of their...
...going. He never manages to convince the audience that the man really wants to escape, much less arouse our sympathy. Ballochet, the stock bespectacled "intellectual" who worships the Corporal, is abysmally parodied by Claude Rich, who marches forth to death like those two poor souls in the opening of Stalag 17. Claude Brasseur's part as another crony is never clearly defined in the script, and the actor avails himself of the consequent opportunity to draw pay for doing nothing...