The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away
by Roy Ward Baker

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Actor: Alec McCowen, Colin Gordon, Hardy Kr?ger, Michael Goodliffe, Terence Alexander
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Eric Cross
Producer: David Deutsch
Producer: Earl St. John
Producer: Julian Wintle
Writer: Howard Clewes
Writer: James Leasor
Writer: Kendal Burt
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: United Artists

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Movie Review: This one really is "Based on a True Story"
Summary: 5 Stars

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY is an exciting WWII film that is based on Kendal Burt's book detailing the real life exploits of Swiss born Franz von Werra, a German pilot who is captured by the British when his plane crashes. Von Werra is played with a muted but still smug swagger by Hardy Kruger,a favorite of mine since SUNDAYS AND CYBELE (LES DIMANCHES DE VILLES D'AVRAY) which won the Oscar for Best Foreign film in 1962. The pilot's sole goal is to be assigned to a POW camp so he can go about the business of escaping, the Brits however, are more concerned with trying to pry information out of him--even going so far as to suggest that his well-known heroics might be all so much fakery and they will expose his deceit to the other German prisoners. No go, he ain't buying it even though what they say may very well be true. He simply doesn't care.

Finally they give up and he's sent to a camp from which he quickly attempts an escape but is just as quickly captured and shipped off to another camp. At the second camp the escape is more organized a la THE GREAT ESCAPE but with much the same results for von Werra. And so it goes until he is shipped off to Canada with other escape prone Germans, where he makes his final bid for freedom. The fact that this film was made so soon after the end of WWII is surprising and the fact that Kruger can still makes us feel so much empathy for his character and genuinely make us hope for him to succeed is a testament to both Kruger's abilities as an actor and to the writers and to director Roy Ward Baker. Don't forget to read the epilogue and find out what happened to von Werra after he left Canada! Its very ironic.

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Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 106 minutes Rating: Nr

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