Stalag 17

future review

for all of us to be honest in some ways it reminded me a bit of Stalag 17 in some ways yeah I was just going to say Stalag 17 because that's

what it sounds like to me more in mood and tone

yeah and also the look the black and white of Stalag 17 is kind of similar but this is a sweatier even more bleak film than Stalag 17 because I

much prefer Stalag 17 to like A Great Escape personally Because I find it far more authentic and believable as an experience.

But I think I would enjoy this.

Yeah, Tom Courtney was great.

So, yeah, I would definitely recommend this to anyone.

How does that, does that help you?

Starlight 17, Fahrenheit 451, The Angry Man.

Um, no, the answer would be 13 hours.

Oh, 13 hours.

Hitchcock also reunited with costume designer Edith Head, who'd worked with him on Notorious, while assistant director Herbert Coleman helped manage the production and became an important link between Hitchcock and his new studio.

Finally, in the editing room was George Tomasini, a Paramount editor whose recent work included Billy Wilder's Stalag 17, helping build the film's suspense by cutting between what Jeff saw through his window and his reactions to it.

In short, Hitchcock had assembled a remarkable group of collaborators.

And while none of them knew it then, or maybe they did, together they would help make some of the most defining and celebrated films of his career.

Jesus, that's such a good movie.

He was also in Stalag 17, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch.

Oh, The Wild Bunch, another one.

Sam Packingpaw movie.

So he's just like rattling things off in his career.

And then he also would do Sabrina, The Seven Year Itch, and Stalag 17.

The screenplay is by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, who also wrote The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, and Cactus Flower.

It's based on the 1929 one-act play Idja Katja Harom.

Um, beautiful black and white cinematography, uh, black and white CinemaScope.

Um, and it, it's-- I, I think it's one of the great, like, prisoner of war, you know, like Stalag 17.

There are a number of really great heart-wrenching films about, about inmates in camps, and Naked Among Wolves is, is incredibly powerful.

It was remade, actually, not...

Otto Preminger's Laura.

Otto Preminger we recently saw in Stalag 17 as the Nazi commandment, but he's best known as actually a great director.

And this is a pretty... elegant film noir that they're showing at the festival uh in tandem with the film historian karina longworth who did a little intro for the movie she and her husband ryan johnson were at the festival and and johnson i'll get to a bit later um it was i hadn't seen this movie in probably 15 years or so so it was fun to see on the big screen um uh great um style in this movie.

Preminger also made the film Anatomy of a Murder, which is another one that you guys definitely would be fun to talk about at some point.

Yes.

By the way, played a Nazi in Stalag 17.

Yes.

Yes, he did.