UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

lmcooper-32332 I throughly enjoyed this film. It has it's faults but no film is perfect. It would make a wonderful television series based on the book. The film doesn't have time to tell the full story but a series would include most of the story and hopefully be accurate. Unlike a similar movie with the title 'The Great Escape" which was largly fictionalized, or a sitcom such as 'Hogan's Heros' which I believed borrowed heavily from this movie. I would love to see a quality accurate representation of Sargent Major Cowards exploits during World War II and his immense bravery in certain situations. In fact I believe such a series, produced in the UK, would make a genuine contribution, not only to British history but to the PBS series 'Masterpiece'.

earbyc A good story totally let down by the cheap way it was made, surely one could have afforded a trip into France or Belgium to film it. The locations are so obviously British it is embarrassing, the scene at the cottage for example with a real English door knocker, and the train which is a LMR class 8f if my memory is correct.Obviously nothing can be done about this but remake what could, and should have been a damn good film!I have not used enough lines it seems I need ten, but there is nothing else to say except why cant I say all that needs to be said in less than ten lines, and stop my fingers hurting by typing more than I need to etc, etc, is that enough now please?Still some more lines to write so I am told I wonder why I bothered in the first place.Just checked out Charles Coward who was portrayed by Bogarde in the film, which goes to prove this should have been a blockbuster not a B movie. I suggest a remake as this man did far more than the original film depicts, so yes the 1962 version is total absolute unadulterated rubbish!

anthonyrwaldman I First saw this film on its release in 1962. Unfortunalely, I had read John Castle's biography of sargant- major Charles Coward before I saw the film. A large section of the book deals with Coward's attempts to help Jews escape from the Auchwitz death camp. The film dealt with this by having a five minute segment where Henry Piek's drawings of the horrors of Auchwitz are shown with Dirk Bogarde giving a voice over commentary. Well, at least it was a film that mentioned the Hollocaust . A very rear thing in the early 1960's. I saw this film again just recently on television and the Auchwitz segment had been edited out of the film. So, now the film is just another Second World War adventure movie along with an unlikely romantic interest that was not in the biography (Coward was married and very much devoted to his wife). But, there is something about this film that makes it different from other British war time escape films. It is about ordinary soldiers and not officers. These soldiers have been put to work by the Germans and the p.o.w. camps do not have the air of the British public school. These other ranks do not just try to escape but commit dangerous acts of sabotage. Therefore, on the whole this film is still worth seeing. It it was great to see the wonderful Dirk Bogarde playing a cockney character part that he does so well.

paul2001sw-1 'The Password is Courage', a story of prisoners of war based on the biography of a certain Seargant Coward, is a strange film. On one hand, the low production values give it the feel of a wartime propaganda romp (even though it was in fact made in 1962); on the other hand, Dirk Bogardde's cheeky chappy persona and some comical portraits of the Germans seem rather to predict the coming of "'Allo 'Allo". In spite of the generally amateurish feel, the key scenes still convey some tension; but most later movies on this subject possess more bite and cynicism about the nature of humans under duress on both sides of the wire.