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Stalag 17
Directed by
Billy Wilder
Not Rated
1953
2h
Comedy
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Drama
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and more
7.9
91%
92%
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After two American prisoners are killed by the guards in the act of escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
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Cast of Stalag 17
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
Billy Wilder
Director / Writer / Producer
Edwin Blum
Writer
Stalag 17 Ratings & Reviews
mickerdoo
July 12, 2025
Weird subject to make light of but I'm sure a lot of people needed a laugh after all that. Either way, great characters with funny bits.
Mister Arn
May 14, 2025
Stalag 17 is an enjoyable Billy Wilder film with some over the top stereotypes.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mildred Martin
The suspect sergeant, an opportunist hated and patronized by the men he exploits, is extraordinarily well played by William Holden. Bidding neither for sympathy nor any particular understanding. Holden's Sefton is no conventional war play hero.
Los Angeles Times
Philip K. Scheuer
Billy Wilder, one of the most caustic-minded of Hollywood's writer-director-producers, has taken a stage hit by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski and preserved its essential humor and tragedy with no dulling of its corrosive edges.
San Francisco Examiner
Hortense Morton (Screen Scout)
This picture you have to see... while It deals remotely with war, it definitely is more on the happy side... a fine laugh deal, with suspense beautifully interlaced.
Tampa Bay Times
Lillian Blackstone
Though its setting is grim, [Stalag 17] rises above its unhappy circumstances to become one of the funniest comedy-melodramas of the year.
Washington Post
Richard L. Coe
One of the year's better films, a taut, shrewdly observant melodrama several notches above its stage original.
Newsweek
Newsweek Staff
A smash hit on Broadway two years ago, the Donald Bevan-Edmund Trzcinski play about what passed for life in a German prison camp comes to the screen as an even more successful blend of melodrama and rough, occupational comedy.
New York Daily News
Wanda Hale
Wilder has turned the original into a highly satisfactory film which we can all cheer for general excellence.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Elston Brooks
The real charm of the film lies in its character portrayals.
Detroit Free Press
Helen Bower
As much as any movie I've ever seen, Stalag 17 illustrates what can and should be done in translating a stage hit to the screen.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
Mr. Holden handles his role with his usual aplomb, Don Taylor, Richard Erman, and Harvey Lembeck perform with unselfconscious skill. Sig Ruman does an excellent job as Schultz... and Otto Preminger huffs and puffs as an arrogant camp commander.
Boston Globe
Marjory Adams
Stalag 17 is one of the great pictures of 1953.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The gallows humor is entertaining, despite some rather broad roughhouse effects.
San Francisco Chronicle
John McMurtrie
The mystery of who the real spy is provides the drama, yet the movie in many ways is a series of comic vignettes that wouldn't be out of place in M*A*S*H.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Teens may enjoy this exceptional, exciting drama.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
As rowdily entertaining on the screen as it was on the stage.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
The resulting letdown is terrific, but along the way there is some of the funniest men-at-loose-ends interplay that Wilder has ever put on film.
Variety
William Brogdon
A lusty comedy-melodrama, loaded with bold, masculine humor and as much of the original's uninhibited earthiness as good taste and the Production Code permit.
AV Club
Noel Murray
In the end, Stalag 17's irreverence likely didn't revolutionize moviemaking for adults so much as it paved the way for the likes of M*A*S*H and Animal House. Then again, that alone is an achievement worth celebrating.
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