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Excellent adaptation.

An Exercise In Nonsense

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

As mentioned by other reviewers, prisoner-of-war movies would seem a natural venue for film noir. Certainly Billy Wilder's cynically moody Stalag 17 (1953) (available on a 10/10 Paramount DVD) qualifies, despite (or possibly because of) its unpleasantly realistic comic relief from Robert Strauss and company. William Holden won and thoroughly deserved the year's Best Actor award for his biting portrait of the amorally self-serving Sefton, while Otto Preminger (in his last on-screen movie role (before concentrating on producing and directing) captures our second-most degree of attention (Holden, of course, is number one) as the camp colonel.Other famous POW movies tend to be more light-hearted as well as intentionally escapist (in both senses of that word).If only for William Holden's performance, "Stalag 17" certainly rates as a must-see movie!

This movie is all about prisoners of war and is comedy movie. If anyone had seen "The Great Escape" then they will find some frames similar to that. There is nothing much to say about the movie you will understand if you watch.Movie is basically all about the war prisoners who wants to escape from German prison camp. But the warden of camp says no one can escape from camp. I will not spoil the movie and will keep short. Comedy is done to keep the viewers interested and some suspense is maintained.I'll give 6 star because movie I found movie lack some seriousness in it and lot comedy is done. Some may find it a good movie. But from where I stand 6 rating is fair enough.

"There will be no Christmas trees. But there will be delousing with ice water from the houses. " Goddamn. I love this movie.A group of American airmen in a Nazi POW camp come to a very disturbing conclusion that among them there must be a Nazi agent who has been disclosing all their secret plans to the camp's commandant. Clouds of suspicion gradually start to build up. Its quite different from most of the other POW movies that we are used to see & quite entertaining too. Wilder maintained the balance of comedy, drama, thrill & satire quite efficiently. There are two things that I liked most about the movie– the outstanding screenplay & some brilliant performances by the actors. Specially William Holden & Sig Ruman.I can't really think of any other movies that do this good a job of being simultaneously funny and serious, except maybe Dr. Strangelove.

It's the end of 1944. Sgt. J.J. Sefton (William Holden) is a cynic and an opportunist who bets against fellow prisoners escaping. They're American POWs in Stalag 17. The prison commandant Oberst von Scherbach (Otto Preminger) seems to have an informer in Barrack 4. Sgt. Frank Price (Peter Graves) is the prisoners' security chief. Animal (Robert Strauss) is the barrack's loud wild man. Duke (Neville Brand) is the hothead. For some, the obvious leak is Sefton who trades with the guards. After some more setbacks, the men beat up Sefton. Sefton figures that he needs to find the real leak.I don't really like the broad comedy coming from Animal and Harry. They just take the seriousness out of darker POW story. The two different tones keep stepping on each other. I really don't like the broad comedy. The secret informer is quite compelling although I would have made Dunbar fake the sabotage story. That would have worked even better especially considering Sefton talking about how his mother buying his way out of trouble.