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movie Stalag 17

Released: May 29, 1953
Runtime: 2 hours
Comedy Drama War

After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.

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