Stalag 17

Stalag 171953

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 120 minutes

Black comedy and suspenseful action inside a German POW camp during World War II--a setting that was later borrowed for the TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes. The great director Billy Wilder adapted the hit stage play, applying his own wicked sense of h… more »



Sefton:
What is this anyway, a kangaroo court? Why don't you get a rope and do it right?

Duke:
You make my mouth water.

Sefton:
You're all wire-happy, boys. You've been in this camp too long. You put two and two together and it comes out four - only it ain't four.

Hoffy:
What's it add up to you, Sefton?

Sefton:
It adds up that you got yourselves the wrong guy. Because, I'm telling you, the krauts wouldn't plant two stoolies in one barracks. And whatever you do to me, you're gonna have to do all over again when you find the right guy.

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