Director: Tay Garnett

Writers: Robert Aisner; Robert D. Andrews; Lilo Dammert; Alexander Esway; Michael Kanin; Ring Lardner, Jr.

From novel: A Thousand Shall Fall by Hans Habe

Keywords: Drama, WWII

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jean-Pierre Aumont	Actor	5-Jan-1911	30-Jan-2001	La Machine Infernale
Joseph Calleia	Actor	4-Aug-1897	31-Oct-1975	Touch of Evil
Hume Cronyn	Actor	18-Jul-1911	15-Jun-2003	Cocoon
Wallace Ford	Actor	12-Feb-1898	11-Jun-1966	A Patch of Blue
Cedric Hardwicke	Actor	19-Feb-1893	6-Aug-1964	Suspicion
Gene Kelly	Actor	23-Aug-1912	2-Feb-1996	Singin' in the Rain
Jack Lambert	Actor	13-Apr-1920	18-Feb-2002	Riverboat
Peter Lorre	Actor	26-Jun-1904	23-Mar-1964	The Maltese Falcon

REVIEWS

Review by Alex Costa (posted on 22-Dec-2007)

Indeed we know this was a propaganda movie (we were in 1943) but the less careful choice of actors (Gene Kelly is great but with that american accent he would not certainly be a french soldier, Peter Lorre plays a somewhat ridiculous german sub-officer and Cedric Hawdrick playing the priest give the bad conotation of a movie about French POWs ....and basically only one the actors is French) and uncertain direction and production does not pay of. A pity. As a plot, more dramatic and even more cruel than other POW movies (Great Escape, etc) but misses the action, sequence and ingredients we would expect. Conclusion: a movie to keep in our collection of war movies as a souvenir.

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