Stalag 17

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Stalag 17 is a 1953 American war comedy film directed and produced by Billy Wilder, from a screenplay by Edwin Blum and Wilder, based upon the Broadway play of the same name by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski, inspired by their experiences as prisoners in Stalag 17B in Austria. The film follows the story of a group of American airmen confined in a German prisoner-of-war camp. The film focuses on one particular barracks, where the men come to suspect that one of their number is an informant. The film stars William Holden, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, along with Don Taylor, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Peter Graves, Neville Brand, Richard Erdman, Sig Ruman, and Otto Preminger. Strauss and Lembeck appeared in the original Broadway production.

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