Albert RN
Artist and illustrator John Worsley, who made the model of "Albert" for the film, had performed the same task in the the real P.O.W. camp, where he had been assisted by the film's technical adviser Senior Commissioned Gunner (TAS) Lieut. J.W. Goble.,Tex says he is in the US Navy Air Force, there wasn't such an outfit. If he as an aviator in the US Navy, he would have said US Navy.,Capt. Barton: [Reading out a letter from home] Listen to this: "Cousin Tony has been taken prisoner and is in Stalag B. His mother says 'Can you pop round and see him'". Old girl must be crackers...,Closing credits epilogue: 'ALBERT' was re-created for the screen by John Worsley,Featured in Frances Farmer Presents: Break to Freedom (1958),Did Your Mother Come From Ireland?
(uncredited)
Music by Michael Carr
Lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy,Lewis Gilbert has put together quite a good cast for this light-hearted wartime tale of POWs who find quite an innovative way of escaping and goon-baiting at the same time. Jack Warner ("Maddox") heads up the Allied side while Frederick Valk the Nazi one - and battle commences. The allies have a secret weapon - well, two actually. One is "Ainsworth" (Anthony Steel) who invents the other - "Albert" - a head made of papier-mâché that fits onto a collapsible torso built to fool the guards during their routine inspections. After a few mishaps, a bit of bribery, betrayal and some impatience, it finally falls to "Ainsworth" to try and escape... This has a strong cast - including Anton Diffring and Robert Beatty, and is written with serious intent but enough dark humour to flow well for 90 minutes, and I really quite enjoyed it.,