i absolutly love this movie
it makes me happy. thought id share it.
shareI can watch it anytime!
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Amen! I know It's a cliche' but they don't make 'em like they used to!
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I love the whole betty white running gag, so awsome, i too love this movie. now i wish i could find it on DvD or VhS
"His mercies are new every morning"Lamentations 3:22-23
I WAS IN THE POOL, I WAS IN THE POOL
I think you mean Betty Grable. Betty White was on the Golden Girls!
I think Stalag is one of Wilder's most underrated movies, in a way. Seems that most film historian snobs don't give it the time of day, for whatever reason. Maybe it plays as "too patriotic" for them or some crapola. Many other intelligencia seem to have a problem with the humor, as if it's inappropriate, but I've always thought the movie had a great balance of pathos/comedy/mystery. Lastly, Wilder himself never seemed all that crazy about the movie. All of this may account for it's lack of appreication today. I think it deserves much more.
One of the things that makes Stalag 17 great is it's authenticity. It was written & acted largely by men who had served in World War II. The conditions in the camp are appropriately deprived (even depraved on occassion, i.e., The Animal!) and filthy. It was also made close enough to the war to ring true with equipment and lingo. On top of it all, it's got one hell of a great payoff.
After watching this film I did not realize how much of a genius Billy Wilder is. I've seen Some Like it Hot, Sunset Blvd, The Apartment, The Seven Year Itch, maybe some others...and this. After seeing this movie, I was blown away...what a masterpiece. They don't make them like they used to. Like it was said in the beginning of the movie, where it was all like this is the first you have ever seen a prison at a POW camp...or whatever (I know I am wayyy off.) Now today, people just COPY COPY COPY! This movie is the best of the best.
shareso do I ... but I have to ask a question to the general readers here...why is it that after the sixties or seventies you never heard a word about the japanese prison camps? were not the horrible things the japanese did back then equal or go beyond the germans? I apologize as I know this is a post on Stalag 17 which is one of my favorite movies, but all the historical stuff that posters (is that the correct term?) seem to know, I never hear a word about the atrocities done by the japanese during this war...
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Yeah, I love this film - I have loved every Billy Wilder film i've seen. Plus I have a great like for films and tv shows set in POW camps. Not quite sure why, being a 20yr old gal from Oz. but I do. I love this, the Great Escape, Hogan's Heroes, as well as Changi - which was about Australians in a Japanese POW camp. A fantastic series.
William Holden was so great in this - i just heard he only got to say thanks for his Oscar before the music cut him off - which is one of the reasons its an open time show.
"Everything in this room is eatable. Even I'm eatable. But that’s called cannibalism."
Watch Lean's 'Bridge on the River Kwai', as it deals with that theme.
"What do you want me to do, draw a picture? Spell it out!"
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