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Insomnia Cinema: Stalag 17 (1953) - Uncut (Patreon)

Published:
2025-08-12 16:45:37
Imported:
2026-06

Content

William Holden, Robert Strauss, Peter Graves, Don Taylor, Harvey Lembeck, Richard Erdman, Sig Ruman, Otto Preminger

Comments

Erin Mileur

The scene were Animal and Shapiro are using the paint to get close to the Russian women was actually based on a real incident only this case it was an escape attempt. German guards were known for coming up with often nonsensical kinds of punishments so two guys painting a line in the dirt did not seem strange. They did make it out of the camp but were later recaptured.

Erin Mileur

Good that you mentioned Hogans Heroes because CBS was sued by the plays original authors for plagiarism the suit was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.

Erin Mileur

Otto Preminger the actor who plays camp commandant was the director of the Laura (1944).

Erin Mileur

During production William Holden asked repeatedly for Billy Wilder to make his character nicer feeling he was too selfish.

Erin Mileur

Although William Holden won the Oscar for Stalag he felt that his winning was to compensate for not winning for Sunset Boulevard and thought Burt Lancaster of Montgomery Clift should have won for From Here to Eternity.

James B.

Great movie. I'm sure he wasn't thinking straight, but Pricehoffer should've dropped to the ground with his hands over his head. Dumb Nazi.

Youtalkingtome
>>183733564

I definitely think his performance in Sunset Boulevard was more impressive and noteworthy than this one.

Clare Manion

Wow – you’re right, a very unexpected tone! I loved it, though - great writing, acting, cinematography, everything. I can see how this must have been a huge influence for a lot of other movies. First one that comes to mind is of course is The Great Escape. (Have you seen Great Escape? If you said, I didn’t catch it.) I agree that Animal and his buddy were a bit much. Although, they do fit the archetype of the two jesters bumbling alongside the main plot (like C3PO & R2D2, or the two from Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.)... I wonder if Animal was a little bit of an inspiration for the character of ‘Maggott’ in The Dirty Dozen; in that Maggott = Animal + violence. Also – I didn’t know that story about Upton Sinclair/The Jungle, that’s fantastic!

Erin Mileur

Another good WWII pow movie to check out is Victory (1981) think The Great Escape meets The Longest Yard. Starring Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Max Von Sydow and directed by John Huston.

Biff McKeldin

Loved your reaction. Another Billy Wilder movie that takes on a heavy topic (the Cold War) but uses cartoonish farce to make its point is ONE, TWO, THREE (1961). It involves a coca-cola executive in West Berlin and his boss’s daughter who elopes with a communist from East Berlin. Hilarity ensues. Jimmy Cagney in his last starring role is the executive.

Youtalkingtome
>>183768624

I almost watched One, Two, Three or The Fortune Cookie. I will definitely be watching them down the road!

Youtalkingtome
>>183768210

I am somewhat familiar with it (it's a futbol match in a POW camp, right?). I would lave to check it out!

Youtalkingtome
>>183767394

Animal and his sidekick definitely had the feel of bumbling secondary sidekicks (great comparison to Star Wars droids). I have seen at least a big part of The Great Escape many years ago, but I don't know if I've seen the whole thing.

Erin Mileur

Otto Preminger also played Mr Freeze on the Adam West Batman tv show. The other two actors who played Mr Freeze were George Sanders and Eli Wallace.