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I have seen this film a few times but the attention to detail at the start of the film have not struck me before.
The British armed forces were very clever in how they handled prisoners of war in World War 11.
This film shows the elaborate methods used to obtain information from captured German pilots without using torture or any rough measures.
Prisoners are given a drink and a cigarette by some old fool with a bad leg,old officer talks to them about nothing important,they relax and hopefully let something slip that they would not give away to a stern faced young officer in a formal setting.
Similar methods are shown being used by the Germans on American pilots in TARGET UNKNOWN 1951.
CODENAME EMERALD made in the 1980s shows a similar situation.
The best prisoner of war film I can think of is 36 HOURS with James Garner.
I wonder when making films like this the film makers take account of the fact that the armed forces might not want all the methods used to keep or gather information made public ?