𝗔𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗢𝗪 𝗖𝗼𝗹. Von Ryan "𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗮" 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗔 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗢𝗳 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀
𝙏𝙤 𝙀𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙚 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙄𝙣 𝙄𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙮 𝘿𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙒𝙒𝙄𝙄 . An American POW Col. Von Ryan "Frank Sinatra" leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII. What a great performance by Sinatra and Trevor Howard in this classic World War II movie. A great script and some strong supporting roles make this movie a wonderful piece of entertainment. Sharp movie fans may even notice a young James Brolin in a small role. One of the greatest thing about this movie is the wonderful line uttered by Trevor Howard to Frank (as Von Ryan) when Sinatra tries to tie a knot to show how to strangle a German guard (which fails) and Trevor Howard shows Sinatra how to really tie a strangle knot to kill and says the immortal line "learn that from the cowboy films did you?". What a great put down, its worth watching just for that.
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà and many other fine actors.
A bit of movie trivia.
01: Michael Goodliffe, who plays Capt. Stein, was an actual Prisoner of War during WWII. He was captured at Dunkirk and spent the next five years in a German POW camp.
02: The author of the book, David Westheimer, was a navigator on a B-24 that was shot down over Italy in WWII and he was a POW in Stalag Luft III.
03: The young actor John Leyton, who guides Ryan through a series of trap doors and secret passages, also played Willie, one of the 'Tunnel Kings' in The Great Escape (1963) just two years earlier.
If you have watched this movie, what would your rating be on a scale of 1 to 10? The URL to the completely free movie and my movie channel off BC are below. My reviews will be based upon 1 to 10. With 1 being the lowest and 10 being the best. This movie has a rating of 7.9 out of 10.
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