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The film opens with the narrator, Cookie (Gil Stratton), recalling life in Barracks 4 of Stalag 17 -- a Luftwaffe POW compound "somewhere on the Danube" holding 630 sergeants from various U.S. flight crews -- and in particular the attempted December 1944 escape of two prisoners, Manfredi and Johnson, whose capture and death lead the rest of the [=POW=]s to suspect that there's a traitor in their midst who tipped off the Germans. The primary suspect is Sefton (Holden), a cynical scrounger who employs Cookie as his lackey and whose caustic attitude and self-centered opportunism rankles the rest of the barracks.

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The film opens with the narrator, Cookie (Gil Stratton), recalling life in Barracks 4 of Stalag 17 -- a Luftwaffe POW compound "somewhere on the Danube" holding 630 sergeants from various U.S. flight crews -- and in particular the attempted December 1944 escape of two prisoners, Manfredi and Johnson, whose capture and death lead the rest of the [=POW=]s to suspect that there's a traitor in their midst who tipped off the Germans. The primary suspect is one J.J. Sefton (Holden), a cynical scrounger who employs Cookie as his lackey and whose caustic attitude and self-centered opportunism rankles the rest of the barracks.
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''Stalag 17'' is a 1953 war movie set in a UsefulNotes/{{World War II}} German POWCamp, directed by Creator/BillyWilder and starring Creator/WilliamHolden, Creator/OttoPreminger, Don Taylor, Robert Strauss, Neville Brand, Harvey Lembeck, Sig Rumann, and Creator/PeterGraves. Adapted by Wilder and Edwin Blum from the [[TheFilmOfThePlay hit Broadway play]] of the same name, which in turn was based on the real-life [=POW=] experiences of authors Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski.

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''Stalag 17'' is a 1953 American war {{dramedy}} movie set in inside a UsefulNotes/{{World War II}} German POWCamp, directed by Creator/BillyWilder and starring featuring an EnsembleCast that includes Creator/WilliamHolden, Don Taylor, Creator/OttoPreminger, Don Taylor, Robert Strauss, Neville Brand, Harvey Lembeck, Creator/RichardErdman, Creator/PeterGraves, Neville Brand, and Sig Rumann, and Creator/PeterGraves. Ruman. Adapted by Wilder and Edwin Blum from the [[TheFilmOfThePlay hit Broadway play]] of the same name, title, which in turn was based in turn on the real-life [=POW=] experiences of authors Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski.
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The film is built on a double allegory: the same paranoia that causes the [=POW=]s to target Sefton had 1) enabled the Nazis easily to scapegoat the Jews and 2) prompted Hollywood to institute a [[UsefulNotes/TheHollywoodBlacklist Blacklist]] shortly before the film's release scapegoating [[RedScare left-leaning]] scriptwriters, performers, and others.

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The film is built on a double allegory: the same paranoia that causes the [=POW=]s to target Sefton had 1) enabled the Nazis easily to scapegoat the Jews and 2) prompted Hollywood to institute a [[UsefulNotes/TheHollywoodBlacklist Blacklist]] blacklist]] shortly before the film's release scapegoating [[RedScare left-leaning]] scriptwriters, performers, and others.

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