It gets the high score it deserves for daring to be different in so many ways.

Yes, its a POW film. Yes, their trying to escape.

So why is it so different?

Their jailers are the Italians who we so rarely see in POW films.

We have a murder mystery, a Who Done It to solve!

We also have a spy in the camp revealing the escape plans to the Italians.

It's a pretty good name cast with Richard Todd, Richard Attenborough and William Franklyn as the more notable names.

The film looks good, it's well scripted and you have an excellent bad guy in Benucci, the Italian Camp Commander.

The great storyline that they find the man they think is the spy dead in a tunnel which totally throws them off starts the who done it. It also stops them thinking about spies until they do reveal who the actual traitor is (I won't spoil that for you).

The ending after the escape is a tad weak, I would have liked to have watched more of their escape once they were outside the camp.

Overall its a very decent movie for its age. Thumbs up and recommended to those who like their War or POW films.