Aired Sunday July 28, 12:00pm - 2:15pmon London Live

The One That Got Away (1958)

Action / Adventure

The true story of Franz von Werra of the Luftwaffe, captured when he crashed his Messerschmitt in 1940. Taken before an interrogating officer, he bet a magnum of champagne against ten cigarettes that he would escape in six months and made two audacious attempts to get away, succeeding at the third when, part of a group of prisoners being transferred to Canada, he escaped and crossed into the neutral United States.

Country
United Kingdom
Cast and crew
  • Roy Ward BakerDirector
  • Hardy KrugerFranz Von Werra
  • Colin GordonArmy Interrogator
  • Michael GoodliffeR.A.F. Interrogator
  • Terence AlexanderR.A.F. Intelligence Officer
  • Jack GwillimCommandant
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