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The One That Got Away

7.0 111 mins War   Drama   1957
Julian Wintle Productions   The Rank Organisation  
Director(s): Roy Ward Baker

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.

Casts of The One That Got Away

Hardy Krüger

as Franz von Werra

Colin Gordon

as Army Interrogator

Michael Goodliffe

as R.A.F. Interrogator

Terence Alexander

as R.A.F. Intelligence Officer

Jack Gwillim

as Commandant, Grizedale

Andrew Faulds

as Lieutenant, Grizedale

Julian Somers

as Booking Clerk

Alec McCowen

as Duty Officer, Hucknall

Harry Lockart

as German Prisoner

Robert Crewdson

as German Prisoner

George Mikell

as German Prisoner

George Roubicek

as German Prisoner

John Van Eyssen

as German Prisoner

Richard Marner

as German Prisoner

Frederick Jaeger

as German Prisoner

Paul Hansard

as German Prisoner

Peggy Ann Clifford

as Train Conductor

Robert Cawdron

as Officer on Horseback

Bernard Horsfall

as Lieutenant - Kent

Glyn Houston

as Harry 'Hurricane'

Stratford Johns

as Second Detective

Robert Raglan

as Bystander

Michael Ripper

as The Corporal who Frisks Franz

Norman Rossington

as Sergeant - Swanick

Reg Thomason

as German Prisoner of War

Frank Williams

as Station Porter

Reed De Rouen

as Canadian Truck Driver

Jack Carter

as Soldier (uncredited)

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