Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.
- chess
- escape
- spy
- world war ii
- guard
- plant
- based on play or musical
- black and white
- security
- christmas
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
William Holden
J.J. Sefton
Don Taylor
James Dunbar
Otto Preminger
Oberst von Scherbach
Robert Strauss
Stanislaus 'Animal' Kuzawa
- Harvey Lembeck — Harry Shapiro
- Richard Erdman — Hoffy Hoffman
- Peter Graves — Frank Price
- Neville Brand — Duke
- Sig Ruman — Johann Schulz
- Michael Moore — Manfredi
- Peter Baldwin — Johnson
- Robinson Stone — Joey
- Robert Shawley — Blondie Peterson
- William Pierson — Marko
- Gil Stratton — Clarence Cook
- Directed
- Billy Wilder
- Written
- Edwin Blum, Billy Wilder
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 671 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
