Directed by Billy wilder and released in 1953, “Stalag 17” is an adaptation of a Broadway play set in a prisoner camp during World War II. The film stars William Holden as one of the imprisoned American soldiers who is suspected of secretly cooperating with the Nazis. After an escape attempt results with two American escapees killed, the prisoners begin to suspect that there is a spy among them, and suspicion falls on Sefton (Holden), a happy go lucky inmate who openly barters with Germans for small provisions and organizes mouse races and other gambling ventures. After Seton manages to bribe the guards into letting him spend the night in the Russian female prisoner’s barracks the suspicions grow even larger. The inmates are also convinced that Sefton betrayed Dunbar, an inmate who revealed that he blew up a German ammunition train while being transported to the camp and who was later separated awaiting transfer to Berlin to be tried for his sabotage. Sefton gets beaten up and ostracized by the inmates, which leads him to try and find the real spy among them. The prisoners manage to free Dunbar from his solitary confinement, and Sefton exposes the real spy among them, and then volunteers to lead Dunbar to safety after the prisoners create a distraction for the German guards. The plan works like a charm and Dunbar and Sefton are both on their way to safety.
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