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BBC TwoMon 9 Nov · 14:50–16:30Movie

The Wooden Horse

True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany

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True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany

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FeaturingLeo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel, David Greene, Peter Burton, Patrick Waddington, Michael Goodliffe, Anthony Dawson
Review snapshotA great gathering of British acting talent - Leo Genn, Anthony Steel, David Tomlinson, Stanley Baxter (and his doppelgänger) et al - in this gentle yarn about ingenuity. They want to escape from a POW camp but their tunnels keep getting discovered. Rightio, they declare; let's multi-task. We can get fit and at the same time start our escape tunnel from underneath the pommel horse which we can move to right beside the fence - ergo, a lot less tunnelling and freedom will soon beckon. It's a gem of a film with just en…

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