Stalag 17

Directed by Billy Wilder
Screenplay by Edwin Blum and Billy Wilder

Based on Stalag 17 (1951 play) by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski

Produced by Billy Wilder

Starring William Holden, Don Taylor and Otto Preminger

Narrated by Gil Stratton
Cinematography Ernest Laszlo
Edited by George Tomasini
Music by Franz Waxman
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates: May 29, 1953 (UK), June 6, 1953 (US)

Stalag 17 is a 1953 American war film directed by Billy Wilder. It tells the story of a group of American airmen confined with 40,000 prisoners in a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp "somewhere on the Danube". Their compound holds 630 sergeants representing many different aircrew positions, but the film focuses on one particular barracks, where the men come to suspect that one of their number is an informant. The film was directed and produced by Billy Wilder, who with Edwin Blum adapted the screenplay from the Broadway play of the same name. The play was written by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski on the basis of their experiences as prisoners in Stalag 17B in Austria.