Albert R.N. (1953)

72% User Rating

1h 28min

"The War's Most Daring P.O.W. Escape"

The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.

Lewis GilbertDirector

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Anthony Steel

Lt Geoffrey Ainsworth

Jack Warner

Capt Maddox

Robert Beatty

Lt Jim Reed

Anton Diffring

Capt Schultz

William Sylvester

Texas

Eddie Byrne

Joe

Guy Middleton

Bongo

Paul Carpenter

Fred

Michael Balfour

Hank

Moultrie Kelsall

Henry

Frederick Valk

Camp Kommandant

Frederick Schiller

Herman

Peter Jones

Schoolie

Geoffrey Hibbert

Cutter

Walter Gotell

Feldwebel

Peter Swanwick

Obergefreiter

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CinemaSerf

Rating 70%

November 14, 2022

Lewis Gilbert has put together quite a good cast for this light-hearted wartime tale of POWs who find quite an innovative way of escaping and goon-baiting at the same time. Jack Warner ("Maddox") heads up the Allied side while Frederick Valk the Nazi one - and battle commences. The allies have a secret weapon - well, two actually. One is "Ainsworth" (Anthony Steel) who invents the other - "Albert" - a head made of papier-mâché that fits onto a collapsible torso built to fool the guards during their routine inspections. After a few mishaps, a bit of bribery, betrayal and some impatience, it finally falls to "Ainsworth" to try and escape... This has a strong cast - including Anton Diffring and Robert Beatty, and is written with serious intent but enough dark humour to flow well for 90 minutes, and I really quite enjoyed it.