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Colditz Story, The 97 minutes, United Kingdom (1954), PG
Average user rating (4.9 / 94 votes)

Based-on-a-true-story account of life in the most notorious prison camp in the Third Reich. Who knew life as a POW could be so fulfilling?

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Colditz Story, The: The real Colditz was a supposedly escape-proof castle, established to house POW's who had escaped from other camps. Although boasting of its accuracy, The Colditz Story uses Pat Reid's memoir as the basis for a largely fictitious story set in the infamous camp. Reid is here played by John Mills, with Eric Portman as his superior officer, Colonel Richmond...
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