The One That Got Away (1957)
- Starring:
- Hardy Kruger, Colin Gordon, (more)
- Director(s):
- Roy Ward Baker
- Category:
- War
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The title character in this fact-based POW drama is Franz von Werra, played by Hardy Kruger. Shot down early in the war, Luftwaffe pilot von Werra is incarcerated in an English prison camp. He refuses to submit to camp routine, insisting that he's on the brink of escaping. After two failed attempts, von Werra is transferred to a camp in Montreal. If you want to know what happens next, take a squint at the title. If you want to know how he does it and why he gets away with it, catch the film. One That Got Away was based on a novel by Kendal Burt and James Leasor. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 111 mins
Complete Cast of The One That Got Away
- Hardy Kruger - Franz von Werra
- Michael Goodliffe - RAF Interrogator
- Jack Gwillim - Commandant Grizedale
- Julian Somers - Booking Clerk
- Harry Lockhart - German Prisoner
- George Mikell - German Prisoner
- John Van Eyssen - German Prisoner
- Richard Marner - German Prisoner
- Alec Gordon
- Glyn Houston
- Colin Gordon - Army Interrogator
- Terry Alexander - RAF Intelligence Officer
- Andrew Faulds - Lt. Grizedale
- Alec McCowen - Duty Officer Hucknall
- Robert Crewdson - German Prisoner
- George Roubicek - German Prisoner
- Frederick Jaeger - German Prisoner
- Paul Hansard - German Prisoner
- Stratford Johns
- Director(s):
- Roy Ward Baker
- Writer(s):
- Howard Clewes
- Producer(s):
- David Deutsch, Earl St. John, Julian Wintle
- Categories:
- War
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