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  1. Correct, phroso. The feat that gave Sgt. Maj. Charlie Coward of The Royal Engineers (Dirk Bogarde) a respectable footnote in the history books is the fact that he once swapped outfits and places with a Jewish prisoner from the Auschwitz death camp and spent overnight in in the Jewish quarters. This fact got him summoned, post-war, to several different trials at Nuremberg. A person neither German nor Jewish who saw the inside of that hellhole was very valuable to the prosecution.

     

    phroso's thread.

     

    Edited by: cmvgor on Apr 2, 2010 11:40 AM

  2. > {quote:title=cmvgor wrote:}{quote}

    > If peterwarne is coming back to us, I'll hold his place until then. New Quote:

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    > "A toast, gentlemen, to Jesus Christ, the Founder of the Communist Party!"

    Early 1960s. B&W. The quote is from one of the light moments in a serious, well-done domestic drama. _Very_ disfunctional family.

  3. This remarkable British officer may well stand as a real-life counterpart to the hero of American TV's

    Hogan's Heros, having pulled a few Hogan-like capers a few times. One example: Working in a major railway-junction yard, he and his mates switched labels on some freight cars, thus sending submarine propellers to the farmlands, and tractor parts to the shipyards at the coast.

  4. Yo, Cheerful Dan:

     

    I don't recognize this one, but it has gotten my interest. As far as I can learn from research, none of the stories about Sadie Thompson ( *Rain* , etc) qualify as comedy. *Irma la Douce* doesn't have a death-threat feature, as I remember. Polly Adler ( *A House Is Not A Home* ) also doesn't seem to fit.

     

    Wild guess: Did something like that turn up after Shirley Jones was beaten up in *The Cheyenne Social Club* ?

  5. If I remember correctly, *The Hill* involves not POWs, but British prisoners in a stockade under command of the British Army. The one I have in mind is fact-based, sourced from a biography of the hero, who was a prisoner of war for several years.

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