War · History
Albert R.N.
The War's Most Daring P.O.W. Escape
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
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Top Cast
Anthony Steel
Lt Geoffrey Ainsworth
Jack Warner
Capt Maddox
Robert Beatty
Lt Jim Reed
Anton Diffring
Capt Schultz
William Sylvester
Texas
Eddie Byrne
Joe
Guy Middleton
Bongo
Paul Carpenter
Fred
Directed by
Lewis Gilbert
Production
Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/1011/14/2022
Lewis Gilbert has put together quite a good cast for this light-hearted wartime tale of POWs who find quite an innovative way of escaping and goon-baiting at the same time. Jack Warner ("Maddox") heads up the Allied side while Frederick Valk the Nazi one - and battle commences. The allies have a secret weapon - well, two actually. One is "Ainsworth" (Anthony Steel) who invents the other - "Albert" - a head made of papier-mâché that fits onto a collapsible torso built to fool the guards during their routine inspections. After a few mishaps, a bit of bribery, betrayal and some impatience, it finally falls to "Ainsworth" to try and escape... This has a strong cast - including Anton Diffring and Robert Beatty, and is written with serious intent but enough dark humour to flow well for 90 minute
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