The One That Got Away (1957)
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The title character in this fact-based POW drama is Franz von Werra, played by Hardy Kruger. Shot down early in the war, Luftwaffe pilot von Werra is incarcerated in an English prison camp. He refuses to submit to camp routine, insisting that he's on the brink of escaping. After two failed attempts, von Werra is transferred to a camp in Montreal. If you want to know what happens next, take a squint at the title. If you want to know how he does it and why he gets away with it, catch the film. One
May 13, 2008
Cast
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Hardy Kruger
Franz von Werra -
Colin Gordon
Army Interrogator -
Michael Goodliffe
RAF Interrogator -
Terry Alexander
RAF Intelligence Office... -
Jack Gwillim
Commandant Grizedale -
Andrew Faulds
Lt. Grizedale -
Julian Somers
Booking Clerk -
Alec McCowen
Duty Officer Hucknall -
Harry Lockhart
German Prisoner -
Robert Crewdson
German Prisoner -
George Mikell
German Prisoner -
George Roubicek
German Prisoner -
John Van Eyssen
German Prisoner -
Frederick Jaeger
German Prisoner -
Richard Marner
German Prisoner -
Paul Hansard
German Prisoner -
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All Critics (5) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (0) | DVD (4)
The Brits seem to be in a generous mood acknowledging the dashing heroic feats of their black leather jacket wearing fair-haired pilot prisoner.
The film predates 'The Great Escape' but has much the same feel; it's suspenseful and exciting, one of the better British movies about the Second World War.
...a top-notch suspense thriller, with fine acting from everyone involved but especially from Hardy Kruger, who holds it all together splendidly.
The German POW character played by Hardy Kruger is not terribly different from Steve McQueen's star-making role in The Great Escape - the dedicated escape artist who singlemindedly focuses on getting out of enemy clutches.
Stays on its toes the whole time.
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Foreign Titles
- The One That Got Away (2010) (DE)
- The One That Got Away (2010) (UK)
