Stalag 17

Stalag 17

1953 · 120 min · EN · NR · 7.7 (532 votes)
Dir. Billy Wilder · Starring William Holden, Robert Strauss, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Harvey Lembeck, Richard Erdman · Music Franz Waxman

The star-spangled, laugh-loaded salute to our P.W. heroes!

ComedyWarMysteryDrama

It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.

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A darkly comedic and tense wartime drama where camaraderie and suspicion simmer in equal measure. It feels like a gritty chess match played out in a POW camp, full of sharp dialogue and underlying dread.

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