That's a pretty neat collection. What's also interesting is out of all of them I could only find two matches to what I have. The PR Reid book and The Wooden Horse.

Lot's of material in this genre apparently.

Hope you are feeling better.

Thanks, August. I have got The Great Escape somewhere, plus a large format book featuring photos of the many and various fake items and equipment, disguises etc fabricated by prisoners in camps to aid their escapes.

I was remembering earlier today another POW film (British, black & white, 1950s) which I don't think got mentioned in this thread. I don't remember the name of it but it starred James Robertson Justice as a "boffin" (scientist) captured and interned either by the Germans or Italians after an aerial sortie went wrong. The prison camp inmates had to get him out because of important secrets he possessed.

Very Important Person (1961)

http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/revie...nt-person.html

http://i.imgur.com/uD2J48N.png?1


That's the one; thanks for the link, Jim.

Your welcome matey.

Esc on the PC:
 

http://i.imgur.com/ZbAoo63.jpg?1


On the first page I mentioned PoW escape games for the pc. These are the two I have, and as far as I know are the only two. I played them as playstation 2 games at first, then found them for the pc: much better to play some games in this way, as many people agree.

They may seem a bit dated by comparison with Bad Company 2 and suchlike games, but the graphics are still extremely good, giving a perfect sense of place, and your pursuers can still run fast and shoot straight.

In the game on the right you get to visit Colditz...

I too have both of those games. I really liked how The Great Escape game added a bit more depth to the characters by adding levels that told their story and gave some details into the preparations needed to even attempt to escape from a prisoner of war camp. As for Prisoner of War, the story line was a bit far fetched although it was plausible, I had always hoped that someone would make a second Prisoner of War game with maybe a mix of tales from Pat Reid's books on Colditz and from Bill Ash's book Under the Wire.

Nice to hear from you again, Hellmut
 

I never actually concluded the second game on PS2: I was unable, I seem to remember, to get hold of a camera with which to photograph the "traitor" in the Kommandant's office, which was the final task at the end.

I'm playing them both through on pc now, so hoping for better luck this time! Thanks so much for your feedback.

There is another PoW film I ought to mention: "Hart's War" starring Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell. The US perspective on PoW life seems somewhat darker on film than the British (I'm thinking also of "Stalag 17", with William Holden) excepting of course the barmy comedy of "Hogan's Heroes", which inspired this thread in the first place.

That was a surprisingly good movie. A POW escape movie that turns into a racial movie that turns into a courtroom drama that turns into a sabotage movie. Well done and the choice for camp commandant was excellent. A very Dracula like portrayal.

Marcel Iures
 

http://i.imgur.com/lIUJe9d.png?1

That's a great summary of the film, also I was wondering what it was about the Kommandant: a vampiric performance indeed. This guy is a top actor in Romania and he did look very familiar; I reckon he'd easily fill the jackboots of Anton Diffring, the classic "we need us a Nazi for this picture" actor of the 1960s and 70s.

This geezer, remember?
 

I think he could but unlike Diffring who was pretty much always a bad guy I think Iures could also do a more sympathetic role kinda like what this guy could do...
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Karl Michael Vogler
http://image1.findagrave.com/photos/...4458804461.jpg

I agree with you on that.


And now a discovery I made only this morning, when one of those mail-order DVD booklets arrived. I've never even heard of this film, apparently an escape movie. Have to get it now and see it...

http://i.imgur.com/98INmsf.png?1

Von Ryan's Express
 

http://i.imgur.com/O1ABfSk.png?1

How did we forget this...?