Directed by:
Basil DeardenCinematography:
Douglas SlocombeComposer:
Alan RawsthorneCast:
Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Gordon Jackson, Karel Štěpánek, Basil Radford, Torin Thatcher, Jack Warner, Meriel Forbes, Jimmy Hanley, Mervyn Johns (more)VOD (1)
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WWII drama about a Czech captain who impersonates a dead British officer, only to be thrown into a German P.O.W. camp reserved for the English. (StudioCanal UK)
Cast
Michael Redgrave
UK
Best movies:
The Hill (1965)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
The Browning Version (1951)
Rachel Kempson
UK
Best movies:
Out of Africa (1985)
Grand Prix (1966)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) (TV movie)
Gordon Jackson
UK
Best movies:
My Brother Tom (1986) (TV movie)
The Great Escape (1963)
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Karel Štěpánek
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Stars Shine (1938)
The Third Man (1949)
Brainwashed (1960)
Basil Radford
UK
Best movies:
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Young and Innocent (1937)
Dead of Night (1945)
Torin Thatcher
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Great Expectations (1946)
Band of Angels (1957)
Jack Warner
UK
Best movies:
Scrooge (1951)
The Ladykillers (1955)
Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
Meriel Forbes
UK
Best movies:
Battle of Britain (1969)
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
The Captive Heart (1946)
Jimmy Hanley
UK
Best movies:
Mervyn Johns
UK
Best movies:
Romeo and Juliet (1954)
Never Let Go (1960)
Moby Dick (1956)
Ralph Michael
UK
Best movies:
Grand Prix (1966)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
A Night to Remember (1958)
Grace Arnold
UK
Best movies:
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Went the Day Well? (1942)
Guy Middleton
UK
Best movies:
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Laughter in Paradise (1951)
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
Rachel Thomas
UK
Best movies:
Tiger Bay (1959)
The Captive Heart (1946)
Under Milk Wood (1971)
Derek Bond
UK
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
Press for Time (1966)
Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
Sam Kydd
UK
Best movies:
A Town Like Alice (1956)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
Reach for the Sky (1956)
Gladys Henson
Ireland
Best movies:
A Night to Remember (1958)
Follow Me! (1972)
First Men in the Moon (1964)
Frederick Schiller
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Double Man (1967)
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
Jane Barrett
UK
Best movies:
The Captive Heart (1946)
Friedrich Richter
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Gleiwitz Case (1961)
Jakob the Liar (1974)
The Story of Little Mook (1953)