Stalag 17 (NR)

Quicklook Rating★★★½

synopsis

Set in a German POW camp, this comedy alternates between raucous dark comedy and pathos as seen through the eyes of a cynical prisoner.

MovieGoer Review

There was a time when it was considered "daring" or "risky" to make a comedy-tinged war movie. In the early 1950s, with the scabs from World War II still in evidence and the United States enmeshed in Korea, war didn't seem to be a lighthear... MORE

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synopsis

Set in a German POW camp, this comedy alternates between raucous dark comedy and pathos as seen through the eyes of a cynical prisoner.

MovieGoer Review

There was a time when it was considered "daring" or "risky" to make a comedy-tinged war movie. In the early 1950s, with the scabs from World War II still in evidence and the United States enmeshed in Korea, war didn't seem to be a lighthear... MORE