This isn’t one I’d have chosen for myself, but it was given to me as a gift by a friend of French origins, and I’ve since watched it just for the fun of it after the initial obligatory viewing.

It’s marvelously acted, and one of the few times I can honestly say I’ve thoroughly enjoyed a movie in a language I couldn’t speak at all. The subtitle translations were excellent, rhyming when they ought, which is no small feat going from one language to another.

This is a very well done and relatively little known work with Frank Sinatra, compared to a great many of the other WW2 films to be found. Trevor Howard and SInatra form an excellent team. It’s also the only POW movie I’m aware of from the war set in Italy instead of Germany.