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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 30 general entries.
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
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| After the escape, Animal speculated that the reason that Sefton volunteered was so that he could "steal our _________". What was the item? | Stalag 17
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wirecutters. A fitting end to the film.
| Where was Dunbar hidden until the escape? | Stalag 17
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In the watertower. He remained in the tower in freezing weather with his legs submerged in water during the day and most of the night. Yet he managed, although with some difficulty, to climb down from the tower and escape from the camp. I guess that he never heard of hypothermia!
| What was Sefton's stated reason for volunteering to take Dunbar out of the camp? | Stalag 17
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To get a big reward from Dunbar's rich mama. Throwing Price out in the camp yard to create a diversion increased his chances of escape.
| What items were ground up to make the smoke bomb used to cover the rescue of Dunbar from the Gestapo? | Stalag 17
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ping pong balls. The highly improbable source of the ping pong balls? Red Cross packages, of course!
| What was the visible signal between Price and Schulz that a message was waiting to be picked up? | Stalag 17
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A loop in the barracks light cord. When a message was picked up, the loop would be yanked out of the cord. After Sefton was beaten for being an informer and was lying on his bunk, the shadow of the looped cord attracted his attention. And the game was afoot!
| After his capture, Lieutenant Dunbar blew up an ammunition train using a simple incendiary device fabricated from what common items? | Stalag 17
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Cigarette and a matchbook. In the film, the Germans needed to know how he blew up the train before they could charge and execute him for sabotage.
| Feldwebel Schulz had been to the U.S. before the war. What was his job there? | Stalag 17
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Professional wrestler. Remember? He talked about "Zinzinnati".
| Why did Animal and Shapiro pretend to be painting a white line down a muddy roadway? | Stalag 17
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To get into the Russian women's compound to watch them shower.. This was one of the most hilarious scenes of this or any other film. I can still see Animal and Shapiro walking along and whitewashing a line in the mud while an incredulous guard followed along.
| Whenever Marco the Mailman wanted the men to quiet down, what did he say? | Stalag 17
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At Ease!. Who can forget his nasally voice?
| What was the military rank of all the prisoners (except Dunbar)? | Stalag 17
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Sergeant. Although it is not mentioned in the film, it is a fact that when the U.S. learned that the Germans treated sergeants better than other enlisted men, all of the enlisted fliers in the Air Corp. were promoted to that rank. Lieutenant Dunbar was not a regular prisoner; he was just passing through.
| What was the nickname of Sefton's go-fer and narrator of the film? | Stalag 17
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Cookie. His full name was Clarence Harvey Cook, and when Sefton escaped, he inherited Sefton's trunk full of goodies.
| What were the names of the two prisoners who were killed while attempting to escape at the beginning of the film? | Stalag 17
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Manfredi and Johnson. The men of Barracks #4 were a little piqued when Sefton bet that they wouldn't make it.
| What branch of the German armed forces ran the camp? | Stalag 17
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The Luftwaffe. The name of the camp was actually Stalag Luft 17. Herman Goering retained some feeling that fellow "Knights of the Sky" should be treated with some degree of chivalry, and Luftwaffe prisoners fared better than those of other services.
| Who played the part of Price/"Security"? | Stalag 17
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Peter Graves. His brother, James Arness, not only played Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke" but also played the part of the monster in the original "The Thing" movie.
| What famous actor-director played the part of the camp commander, Oberst Von Sherbach? | Stalag 17
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Otto Preminger. He was dreaming of a white Christmas, you know, like in the song written by that "little man who stole his name from out capital--Irving Berlin".
| William Holden played the leading role of J.J. Sefton and won the Best Actor Oscar for "53? | Stalag 17
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t. "From Here To Eternity" took Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Frank Sinatra), Best Supporting Actress (Donna Reed), and Best Director (Fred Zinneman). Good year for the military!
Billy Wilder. He won Best Director Oscars for "The Apartment" and "The Lost Weekend". This was one of his best films.
| Which character helped rescue Dunbar from his hiding place, and then escape from the camp? | Stalag 17
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Sefton. The cynical and selfish Sefton helped Dunbar escape. He had known Dunbar briefly when they had both been at officers school, and knew Dunbar's family was very wealthy. Sefton told the other men that he would probably get some reward money for helping Dunbar escape. A schemer to the end!
| Price was exposed after he slipped up when questioned by Sefton in front of the other men. Sefton asked him when Pearl Harbour had occurred, and Price responded with the correct date, but he got his time wrong. What did Price say he was doing when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour? | Stalag 17
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Eating dinner. Price claimed he was eating dinner. Sefton stated that would have been so in Berlin, but in Cleveland, where Price claimed to be from, it would have been lunch time.
| When the SS arrived to take Lt. Dunbar away, Hoffy devised a plan to snatch him from them. What did the prisoners use as a diversion to snatch Dunbar? | Stalag 17
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A smoke grenade. The smoke grenade was created with the use of ping-pong balls given to the prisoners when the Geneva man came to inspect the camp. Originally, Blondie had shown Hoffy that when they were burnt, a thick smoke was given off. He said that they could signal Patton. Hoffy said that they were too far away to signal Patton. But in the end they did come in handy.
| When the man from the Geneva Convention arrived to inspect the camp, we saw him inspect Sefton's barracks. He saw that Sefton had been beaten up and asked if it had been by the Germans. Sefton replied that it happened while he and the men where playing what card game? | Stalag 17
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Pinochle. Sefton had received his beating from the rest of the men in his barracks after they wrongly assumed he was the traitor who had been giving away their secrets and plans. When questioned by the Geneva man, Sefton told him it happened playing Pinochle, adding, "It's a rough game."
| When Lt. Dunbar and Bagradian arrived at the barracks, the prisoners learnt that Dunbar had blown up a munitions train through Bagradian's brilliant impression of which legendary American actor? | Stalag 17
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James Cagney. Bagradian explained, in Cagney style, how it happened. He also did impressions of Clark Gable and Cary Grant, as well as an hilarious impression of Hitler.
| Another one of Sefton's schemes was a racetrack where the runners were mice. What was the name of the winning 'horse' we saw in the race scene? | Stalag 17
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Schnickelfritz. Poor old Animal would have been a winner, but was persuaded by Harry to bet on Equipoise after Harry told him he had, "...clocked him this morning. He was running like a doll."
| One of Sefton's ingenious money-making schemes was that he had another prisoner rig up some high-powered German lenses into a telescope. The prisoners were then able to get an eyeful of the female Russian prisoners heading for the shower. How much would it cost a prisoner for a peek? | Stalag 17
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A cigarette, or half a bar of chocolate. Once the prisoner paid his cigarette or half bar of chocolate, he could have a twenty second look through the telescope. Cookie explained that the telescope would allow the peeper to view the bath house used by the female Russian prisoners.
| How did Price pass information to Von Scherbach, the camp Commandant? | Stalag 17
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Hollow black Queen chess pieces. Sefton secretly observed Price and Schultz changing the chess piece to retrieve information which Schultz would pass to Von Scherbach. As Sefton explained to the rest of the barracks later on, Schultz acted as mail man between Price and Von Scherbach. Price would loop the light cord to indicate he had important information in one of the hollow queens for Schultz to take to the Commandant.
| Animal and Harry were known as the barrack's clowns. Hoffy was the barrack's chief, but what was Price's role? | Stalag 17
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Security. Price, played by Peter Graves, was in fact the German spy in the midst of the real American prisoners. After Sefton took the blame as the traitor, it was finally revealed, by Sefton, that Price was in fact the plant.
| What was the nickname given to the bath house used by the female Russian prisoners? | Stalag 17
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Brick Kremlin. Known to the prisoners as the Brick Kremlin, Animal and Harry even carried out an audacious "gimmick" to get over there and say hello to the women. It almost worked!
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