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The One That Got Away

1957 · 1h 51m

Directed by Roy Ward Baker

6.8

TMDB audience score
61 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.

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Cast

  • Hardy Krüger
    Franz von Werra

  • Colin Gordon
    Army Interrogator

  • Michael Goodliffe
    R.A.F. Interrogator

  • Terence Alexander
    R.A.F. Intelligence Officer

  • Jack Gwillim
    Commandant, Grizedale

  • Andrew Faulds
    Lieutenant, Grizedale

  • Julian Somers
    Booking Clerk

  • Alec McCowen
    Duty Officer, Hucknall

  • Harry Lockart
    German Prisoner

  • Robert Crewdson
    German Prisoner

  • George Mikell
    German Prisoner

  • George Roubicek
    German Prisoner

  • John Van Eyssen
    German Prisoner

  • Richard Marner
    German Prisoner

  • Frederick Jaeger
    German Prisoner

  • Paul Hansard
    German Prisoner

  • Peggy Ann Clifford
    Train Conductor

  • Robert Cawdron
    Officer on Horseback