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Plot. Sergeant-Major Charles Coward is a senior British NCO incarcerated in the prisoner of war camp Stalag VIII-B. He encourages his fellow inmates to escape, and tries to humiliate the German guards at every opportunity.
A comedy drama war film based on the autobiography of Charles Coward, a British officer who escaped from a German POW camp seven times. The film features Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, and Alfred Lynch, and includes a sequence set in Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
- (1.5K)
- Comedy, Drama, War
- Andrew L. Stone
- 1962-12-21
Based on a true story, this film follows Sergeant-Major Charles Coward (Dirk Bogarde), a brave British soldier captured by German forces during World War II....
- (20)
- Andrew L. Stone
- Dennis Schwartz
- Dirk Bogarde
A British officer leads an attempt to escape from a German POW camp.
- Andrew L. Stone, George Pollard
- Dirk Bogarde
Overview. Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he's thrown into a prisoner of war camp, he immediately plans his escape.
Based on the true story of Sergeant-Major Charlie Coward (played by Dirk Bogarde) during World War II, this conventional wartime drama does not convincingly put across Coward's heroism, or his seemingly impossible exploits.
The Password Is Courage. DRAMA. Dirk Bogarde stars as Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a British officer and German prisoner of war who stops at nothing to harass and embarrass his captors and to escape with his fellow prisoners in an amazing -- and true -- series of events that he somehow survives.
