THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY

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• Release Year: 1957
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
• Plot: 'THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY is one of the best of what you might call the second wave of war films. The fact that it is a true story gives it that special fascination that makes it particularly entertaining.' Encore; ; The true, dramatic story of Lt. Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner-of-war taken in Britain during the Second World War to escape from numerous British POW camps and return to his homeland.; The Battle of Britain is at its height. Out of the vapour-traced sky a Messerschmitt spins and plunges onto British soil. Even though the pilot is captured, he is extremely confident and an official interrogation does not deter him from his one objective - to escape and return home against all the odds. In the course of his stay in the allied war camps, he repeated tries to escape, but to no avail.; Undaunted in his efforts, his bid for freedomfinally takes him from England to Canada and into the still neutral Unied States - before making hs way back to Germany.
• Cast: Hardy Krüger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe, Terence Alexander, Jack Gwillim, Andrew Faulds, Julian Somers, Alec McCowen, Harry Lockart, Robert Crewdson, George Mikell, George Roubicek, John Van Eyssen, Frederick Jaeger, Richard Marner, Paul Hansard, Gerald Anderson, Arthur Bentley, Victor Brooks, Adrian Cairns, Edward Cast, Robert Cawdron, Cyril Chamberlain, Peggy Ann Clifford, Jan Conrad, Reed De Rouen, Robert Dorning, Michael Golden, Celia Hewitt, George Hirste, Bernard Horsfall, Glyn Houston, Stratford Johns, Charles Morgan, Al Mulock, Etain O'Dell, Robert Raglan, Michael Ripper, Norman Rossington, Anthony Sagar, Jack Taylor, Ben Williams, Frank Williams, Roy Ward Baker, Howard Clewes, Kendal Burt
• Director: Roy Ward Baker
• Runtime: 1:51
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie