The One That Got Away
1958VOTE NOW
| Rank Film Distributors | Release Date: April 22, 1958 |
Starring:
Alec McCowen, Andrew Faulds, Colin Gordon, Hardy Krüger, Harry Lockart, Jack Gwillim, Julian Somers, Michael Goodliffe, Robert Crewdson, Terence Alexander
Summary:
A cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.
A suspenseful, near-forgotten gem about a captured loyal Luftwaffe pilot, Franz Von Werra (Hardy Kruger), who is obsessed with escape. [05 Jun 1994, p.F1]
If not a milestone, The One That Got Away adds up to a consistently good tingler.
It all takes place before America's entry into the Second World War, and the three bids for freedom (the last from a prison train in Canada) are well handled. In his first English-speaking movie Kruger is impressive, though somewhat enigmatic. [26 Feb 2006, p.22]
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