The Wooden Horse (1950)
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Based on a true story (believe it or don't!), The Wooden Horse is set in a wartime German prison camp. It being the duty for every British POW to attempt escape, internees Leo Genn, David Tomlinson and Anthony Steel hit upon a daring scheme. Building an outsized, boxlike vaulting horse, purportedly for exercise purposes, the trio begin digging a tunnel beneath the horse-right under the noses of their German captors. As one of the first of the British "prison camp getaway" genre, The Wooden Horse establishes many of the form's cliches, including the rule-bound German soldiers whose grasp of the obvious is appalling. Eric Williams adapted the screenplay from his novel The Tunnel Escape. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, (more)
- Director(s):
- Jack Lee
Synopsis of The Wooden Horse
Based on a true story (believe it or don't!), The Wooden Horse is set in a wartime German prison camp. It being the duty for every British POW to attempt escape, internees Leo Genn, David Tomlinson and Anthony Steel hit upon a daring scheme. Building an outsized, boxlike vaulting horse, purportedly for exercise purposes, the trio begin digging a tunnel beneath the horse-right under the noses of their German captors. As one of the first of the British "prison camp getaway" genre, The Wooden Horse establishes many of the form's cliches, including the rule-bound German soldiers whose grasp of the obvious is appalling. Eric Williams adapted the screenplay from his novel The Tunnel Escape. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Wooden Horse
- Leo Genn - Peter
- Anthony Steel - John
- Peter Burton - Nigel
- Michael Goodliffe - Robbie
- Bryan Forbes - Paul
- Jacques Brunius - Andre
- Bill Travers
- Meinhart Maur - Hotel proprietor
- Russell Waters - "Wings" Cameron
- Lis Lovert - Kamma
- David Tomlinson - Phil
- David Greene - Bennett
- Patrick Waddington - Senior British Officer
- Anthony Dawson - Pomfret
- Dan Cunningham - David
- Philip Dale
- Walter Gotell - The follower
- Hans Meyer - Charles
- Franz Schafheitlin - Commandant
- Peter Finch - Australian in Hospital
- Director(s):
- Jack Lee
- Writer(s):
- Eric Williams
- Producer(s):
- Ian Dalrymple
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