“Stalag 17”, the award-winning 1953 ‘dramedy” war feature, based on the Broadway play and ‘inspiration’ for TV series “Hogan’s Heroes”, was directed by Billy Wilder, starring young William Holden (“The Wild Bunch”) in a well-deserved Oscar-winning performance, with Peter Graves, Don Taylor, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Neville Brand, Richard Erdman, Sig Ruman and Otto Preminger, now restored and streaming for free on Tubi:
“…based on a true story, the film recounts the routine of a group of American airmen confined in a German prisoner-of-war camp, during World War 2…
“…focusing on one particular barracks, where the men come to suspect that one of their number is an informant…”
