Albert R.N. (1953)

★ 7.2 1h 28m IMDb

The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.

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Anthony Steel
Anthony Steel as Lt Geoffrey Ainsworth Died 2001 · Chelsea, London, England, UK From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anthony Maitland Steel (21 May 1920 – 21 March 2001) was an English actor and singer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Steel (actor), licens...
Jack Warner
Jack Warner as Capt Maddox Died 1981 · Bromley-by-Bow, London, England, UK From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jack Warner OBE was an English film and television actor. He was born in London, his real name being Horace John Waters. His sisters Elsie and Doris Waters wer...
Robert Beatty
Robert Beatty as Lt Jim Reed Died 1992 · Hamilton, Ontario, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Beatty (19 October 1909 – 3 March 1992) was a Canadian actor who worked in film, television and radio for most of his career and was especially known in t...
Anton Diffring
Anton Diffring as Capt Schultz Died 1989 · Koblenz, Germany Anton Diffring (born Alfred Pollack; October 20, 1918 – May 20, 1989) was a German actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anton Diffring, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributo...
William Sylvester
William Sylvester as Texas Died 1995 · Oakland, California, USA William Sylvester (January 31, 1922 – January 25, 1995) was an American TV and film actor. His most famous film credit was Dr. Heywood Floyd in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968).
Eddie Byrne
Eddie Byrne as Joe Died 1981 · Dublin, Ireland Eddie Byrne (31 January 1911 – 21 August 1981) was an Irish actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eddie Byrne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia..

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CinemaSerf 7/10 Nov 14, 2022
Lewis Gilbert has put together quite a good cast for this light-hearted wartime tale of POWs who find quite an innovative way of escaping and goon-baiting at the same time. Jack Warner ("Maddox") heads up the Allied side while Frederick Valk the Nazi one - and battle commences. The allies have a secret weapon - well, two actually. One is "Ainsworth" (Anthony Steel) who invents the other - "Albert" - a head made of papier-mâché that fits onto a collapsible torso built to fool the guards during their routine inspections. After a few mishaps, a bit of bribery, betrayal and some impatience, it finally falls to "Ainsworth" to try and escape... This has a strong cast - including Anton Diffring and Robert Beatty, and is written with serious intent but enough dark humour to flow well for 90 minutes, and I really quite enjoyed it.

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