Albert R.N.
The War's Most Daring P.O.W. Escape
1953 | 88m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Lewis Gilbert |
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| Writer: | |
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| The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 23, 1953 |
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| Director: | Lewis Gilbert |
| Writer: | |
| Genres: | History, War |
| Keywords | prisoner of war, based on true story, escape, dummy, prison camp |
| Production Companies | Angel Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Apr 30, 2024 Entered: Apr 30, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Anthony Steel | Lt Geoffrey Ainsworth |
| Jack Warner | Capt Maddox |
| Robert Beatty | Lt Jim Reed |
| Anton Diffring | Capt Schultz |
| William Sylvester | Texas |
| Eddie Byrne | Joe |
| Guy Middleton | Bongo |
| Paul Carpenter | Fred |
| Michael Balfour | Hank |
| Moultrie Kelsall | Henry |
| Frederick Valk | Camp Kommandant |
| Frederick Schiller | Herman |
| Peter Jones | Schoolie |
| Geoffrey Hibbert | Cutter |
| Walter Gotell | Feldwebel |
| Peter Swanwick | Obergefreiter |
| Name | Job |
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| Lewis Gilbert | Director |
| Humphrey Cull | Clapper Loader |
| Eric Cass | Boom Operator |
| Jack Asher | Cinematography |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
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Lewis Gilbert has put together quite a good cast for this light-hearted wartime tale of POWs who find quite an innovative way of escaping and goon-baiting at the same time. Jack Warner ("Maddox") heads up the Allied side while Frederick Valk the Nazi one - and battle commences. The allies have a sec ... ret weapon - well, two actually. One is "Ainsworth" (Anthony Steel) who invents the other - "Albert" - a head made of papier-mâché that fits onto a collapsible torso built to fool the guards during their routine inspections. After a few mishaps, a bit of bribery, betrayal and some impatience, it finally falls to "Ainsworth" to try and escape... This has a strong cast - including Anton Diffring and Robert Beatty, and is written with serious intent but enough dark humour to flow well for 90 minutes, and I really quite enjoyed it.