Stalag 17

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Theatrical Release Date:

05/31/2002

DVD Release Date:

12/14/1999

Run Time:

120min.

Starring:

William Holden , Don Taylor , Otto Preminger , Robert Strauss , Harvey Lembeck

Director(s):

Billy Wilder

MPAA Rating:

Not Yet Rated

Genre(s):

Comedy,Drama,War

Plot: The scene is a German POW camp, sometime during the mid-1940s. Stalag 17, exclusively populated by American sergeants, is overseen by sadistic commandant Oberst Von Schernbach (Otto Preminger) and the deceptively avuncular sergeant Schultz (Sig ... Read More

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