Stalag 17
The star-spangled, laugh-loaded salute to our P.W. heroes!
1953 | 120m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Billy Wilder |
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| Writer: | Billy Wilder, Edwin Blum |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | May 29, 1953 |
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| Director: | Billy Wilder |
| Writer: | Billy Wilder, Edwin Blum |
| Genres: | War, Comedy, Drama |
| Keywords | chess, spy, plant, guard, based on play or musical, escape, black and white, security, christmas, barracks, prisoner of war camp |
| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $10,000,000
Budget: $1,661,530 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 04, 2026 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| William Holden | Sgt. J.J. Sefton |
| Robert Strauss | Sgt. Stanislaus 'Animal' Kuzawa |
| Don Taylor | Lt. James Dunbar |
| Otto Preminger | Oberst von Scherbach |
| Harvey Lembeck | Sgt. Harry Shapiro |
| Richard Erdman | Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman |
| Peter Graves | Sgt. Frank Price |
| Neville Brand | Duke |
| Sig Ruman | Sgt. Johann Sebastian Schulz |
| Michael Moore | Sgt. Manfredi |
| Peter Baldwin | Sgt. Johnson |
| Robinson Stone | Joey |
| Robert Shawley | Sgt. 'Blondie' Peterson |
| William Pierson | Marko the Mailman |
| Gil Stratton | Sgt. Clarence Harvey 'Cookie' Cook |
| Jay Lawrence | Sgt. Bagradian |
| Erwin Kalser | Geneva Man |
| Edmund Trzcinski | 'Triz' Trzcinski |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Franz Bachelin | Art Direction |
| Sam Comer | Set Decoration |
| Billy Wilder | Writer, Director |
| Franz Waxman | Original Music Composer |
| Wally Westmore | Makeup Supervisor |
| Ernest Laszlo | Director of Photography |
| Donald Bevan | Theatre Play |
| George Tomasini | Editor |
| Hal Pereira | Art Direction |
| Ray Moyer | Set Decoration |
| Edmund Trzcinski | Theatre Play |
| Edwin Blum | Writer |
| Harlow Stengel | Assistant Camera |
| Gene Garvin | Sound Recordist |
| Doane Harrison | Editorial Consultant |
| Gordon Jennings | Special Effects |
| Harold Lewis | Sound Recordist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Billy Wilder | Producer |
| William Schorr | Associate Producer |
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