The Wooden Horse (1950)

Directed by

Jack Lee

Genre

war film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

U

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of British prisoners of war in a German camp plan a daring escape. They hide their digging under a wooden vaulting horse that they use for exercise in the yard.

tensedeterminedsuspensefullow-keymethodicalgrittyresilientunderstated

What happens

The Wooden Horse is a 1950 British World War II war film directed by Jack Lee and starring Leo Genn, David Tomlinson and Anthony Steel. It is based on the book of the same name by Eric Williams, who also wrote the screenplay. The film depicts the true events of an escape attempt made by POWs in the German prison camp Stalag Luft III. The wooden horse in the title of the film is a piece of exercise equipment the prisoners use to conceal their escape attempt as well as a reference to the Trojan Horse which was also used to conceal men within. The Wooden Horse was shot in a low-key style, with a limited budget and a cast including many amateur actors. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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