The Colditz Story

The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisoners of war who were incarcerated in Colditz set out to prove their captors wrong.

• Guy HamiltonDirector
• Guy HamiltonWriter
• Ivan FoxwellWriter
• William Douglas-HomeWriter

• John MillsPat Reid
• Eric PortmanColonel Richmond
• Frederick ValkKommandant
• Denis ShawPriem
• Lionel JeffriesHarry Tyler
• Christopher Rhodes'Mac' McGill
• Richard WattisRichard Gordon
• Ian CarmichaelRobin Cartwright
• Bryan ForbesJimmy Winslow
• Theodore BikelVandy
• Eugene DeckersLa Tour
• Anton DiffringHauptmann Fischer