WWII B&W prison electrified fence
I'm trying to find a movie that I saw in the late 1960's. It was at the local drive-in and I had fallen asleep after watching the kid's movie(I was a kid). They had the grown-up movie(s) next.
I remember waking up and seeing two scenes. I'm not sure if they were right after each other or different parts of the movie - or possibly two movies. The first scene was 3-5 German officers standing in an office. I'm thinking they were speaking in German with the subtitles shown. I thought they were wearing gray greatcoats. The second scene was during a prisoner escape. I'm guessing they were POWs if it was a WW2 movie. There was 1 or 2 prisoners kneeling next to a wire fence at night trying to escape. When one put his hands towards the wire, electric bolts flashed to his hands, killing him. I could tell it was the fake drawn sparks they would use to show electrocution. I've done some searching of electrified fences at prisons (to eliminate US prison movies), and electric fences were used at Auschwitz (and possibly other concentration camps). It might be a holocaust/concentration camp movie. I think it was B&W, but the German officers didn't have colorful uniforms and the escape scene was at night, so it could have been in color. It's not: The Great Escape Bridge On The River Kwai Diary of Anne Frank |
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It's not:
Stalag 17 Von Ryan's Express The McKenzie Break Movies that I can't find a copy online that might fit: The Wooden Horse Army of Shadows |
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bump
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It might be The Colditz Story, but this is another one I can only find snippets of the movie.
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Neither The Wooden Horse nor The Colditz Story is your movie. I am by no means certain, but I think it might be Kapo (1960).
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Originally Posted by RGC1957 (Post 2348688)
Neither The Wooden Horse nor The Colditz Story is your movie. I am by no means certain, but I think it might be Kapo (1960).
Kapo is new to me. It does have much of what I'm looking for - Nazi guards, prisoners, and an electrified fence. I found the movie online, but I couldn't find the scene I remember. The prisoner in my movie was electrocuted. Thanks, though for your help. |
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Well, someone found my western movie/episode I was looking for. Maybe a bump of this thread will end in a solution.
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Hart's War with Bruce Willis and Collin Farrell, although I can't remember if somebody got electrocuted.
You can't remember any actor/s ? |
Originally Posted by hyperion1is (Post 2359263)
Hart's War with Bruce Willis and Collin Farrell, although I can't remember if somebody got electrocuted.
You can't remember any actor/s ? I'm pretty sure it was a WW2 movie, but I should consider WW1 movies, too. I've seen The Grand Illusion, but I don't remember any electrocution scene and IMDB's plot keywords don't list that either. |
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Bump for the summer
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Although I cannot think of any particular example that matches your description, you might want to look into movies set in whole or in part in North Korean PoW camps. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) was by no means the only one!
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Five for Hell (1969) is a WW2 movie with an electric fence, showing fake looking sparks.
See at 1:28:50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FMRByqd37I |
Originally Posted by James D. Gardiner (Post 2394755)
Five for Hell (1969) is a WW2 movie with an electric fence, showing fake looking sparks.
See at 1:28:50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FMRByqd37I |
Originally Posted by RGC1957 (Post 2394743)
Although I cannot think of any particular example that matches your description, you might want to look into movies set in whole or in part in North Korean PoW camps. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) was by no means the only one!
I've looked at movies with prisons for criminals, but I don't know of any prisons like that with electrified fences. But since I was wrong about my cowboy movie, I should consider movies outside of what I'm expecting. Thanks for the suggestion. |
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In the late 1960s, a drive-in would have advertised what movies it was showing in the local newspaper. Chances are that either Newspapers.com or NewspaperArchive.com has every issue of your local paper from that time period available for searching. Both of them have introductory free trial periods.
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