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    Wooden Horse, The (1950)

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    The Wooden Horse tells the true story of the escape in Summer 1943 of three English prisoners from Stalag Luft III – a Luftwaffe-run prisoner of war camp for Allied aircrew during World War II – using a vaulting horse to hide their escape attempt.

    The vaulting horse is carried day after day to the same spot in the exercise ground of the camp where a couple of men, hidden in the belly of the horse, painfully scoop out a tunnel underneath, while the rest of the POW’s leap over the top.

    The German guards – very properly represented here as soldiers on duty and not as incredible monsters or figures of fun – are not surprised to find the English employing so many hours a day in the practice of sport and exercise.

    They are convincingly fooled, just long enough for the three officers to escape. They crawl out of the shaky- tunnel into the thin German pinewoods.

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    The action only really becomes compelling outside Stalag Luft III as the escapees make their way to Lubek, to Copenhagen, to Sweden, to freedom

    Leo Genn, Anthony Steel and David Tomlinson, as the men who escape, do exactly what is needed of them, and the rest of the cast members justify the word “supporting.”

    Based on the novel by Flight Lieutenant Eric Williams – one of the three real prisoners who escaped – the film was made mostly in Germany and Denmark, with the help of the British War Office and Air Ministry.

    Peter Howard
    Leo Genn
    Phil Rowe
    David Tomlinson
    John Clinton
    Anthony Steel
    Bennett
    David Greene
    Nigel
    Peter Burton
    GC Wardley
    Patrick Waddington
    Robbie
    Michael Goodliffe
    Pomfret
    Anthony Dawson
    Paul
    Bryan Forbes
    David
    Dan Cunningham
    Bill White
    Philip Dale
    “Wings” Cameron
    Russell Waters
    Commandant
    Franz Schafheitlin
    Charlie
    Hans Meyer
    Kamma
    Lis LØwert
    André
    Jacques Brunius
    Sigmund
    Helge Erickssen

    Director
    Jack Lee

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