British distributors Network Releasing will bring to Blu-ray Roy Ward Baker's film
The One That Got Away (1957), starring Hardy Kruger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe, Terence Alexander, and Jack Gwillim. The release will be available for purchase on March 2, 2015.
Based on a remarkable true story, The One That Got Away is the story of the only German prisoner of war to escape Britain and return to his homeland.
Hardy Krüger – one of Germany's leading actors and himself a prisoner of war who escaped from the Americans on three occasions – stars as the charismatic Lieutenant Franz von Werra; a strong supporting cast includes Michael Goodliffe, Colin Gordon and Alec McCowan. This classic feature, directed by Golden Globe winner Roy Ward Baker, is presented here in a High Definition transfer from the original film elements.
With the Battle of Britain at its height, fighter pilot von Werra is shot down over enemy soil and captured by British soldiers. But interrogation and captivity cannot deter him from the single aim of escaping back to his homeland. The course of his escape takes him through Canada and a still-neutral United States before he makes it home, some two years after first being captured.
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