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The Mckenzie Break

1970, Movie, PG, 108 mins

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This well executed, taut drama deals with German prisoners in an Allied POW camp, a rare subject in American films. Keith is an Irish intelligence agent sent to Camp McKenzie in Scotland. After a prison riot is quelled with fire hoses, Keith suspects it was merely a ruse to distract attention from an escape plot. This theory is proven to be true after Janson, a homosexual prisoner ostracized by his fellow inmates and severely beaten during the riot, mumbles something about a... read more leave a comment
A WWII film about an elaborate escape plan launched by the prisoners of Camp McKenzie, a POW camp for German soldiers in Scotland. When a Luftwaffe pilot mysteriously murdered in the compound, an Irish intelligence agent (Brian Keith) is sent to the camp to open an investigation. He discovers that the plan, engineered by the German captain (Helmut Griem), involves a pickup by a U-boat off the coast. In an intense, suspenseful, cat-and-mouse game--augmented by the return to the camp of the factionalism that fomented the Nazi upheaval in Germany--Keith allows the prisoners to escape in the hopes of capturing the U-boat. But his plan goes awry and all but two of the Germans will escape, leaving Keith to face disciplinary action...Based on the novel "The Bowmanville Break" by Sidney Shelley.
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During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.
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Length: 01:47:00
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During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.
Paid | Amazon Video on Demand
Length: 01:47:00
Posted: 12/16/2008
Year: 1970
Rated PG

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Cast
Brian Keith: Capt. Jack Connor
Helmut Griem: Kapitan Schluetter
Ian Hendry: Maj. Perry
Jack Watson: Gen. Kerr
Patrick O'Connell: Sgt. Maj. Cox
Horst Janson: Neuchl

 

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