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The Wooden Horse

This article is about the 1950 film. For other uses, see Wooden horse (disambiguation).

The Wooden Horse
DVD cover
Directed byJack Lee
Written byEric Williams
Produced byIan Dalrymple
Starring
CinematographyC. M. Pennington-Richards
Edited byPeter Seabourne
John Seabourne
Music byClifton Parker
Production
company
Distributed byBritish Lion Film Corporation
Release date
  • 16 October 1950 (1950-10-16)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesEnglish
German
French
Danish
Box office£266,545 (UK)[1]

The Wooden Horse is a 1950 British World War II war film directed by Jack Lee and starring Leo Genn, David Tomlinson and Anthony Steel. It is based on the book of the same name by Eric Williams, who also wrote the screenplay.[2]

The film depicts the true events of an escape attempt made by POWs in the German prison camp Stalag Luft III. The wooden horse in the title of the film is a piece of exercise equipment the prisoners use to conceal their escape attempt as well as a reference to the Trojan Horse which was also used to conceal men within.

The Wooden Horse was shot in a low-key style, with a limited budget and a cast including many amateur actors.

  1. ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p492
  2. ^ Williams, Eric, The Wooden Horse (Collins, 1949)
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