The Password Is Courage (1962) on Netflix
A British sergeant-major, Charles Coward, is held in the German camp Stalag VIII-B. He pushes his fellow prisoners to escape and looks for ways to humiliate the guards.
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Sergeant-Major Charles Coward is a British soldier held in the German prisoner of war camp Stalag VIII-B, where he urges the men around him to plan escapes and takes every chance to make the guards look foolish. Wounded during a forced march, he slips away from his captors and hides in a French farmhouse and its barn, which a German army unit requisitions for a field hospital. The Germans take him for one of their own wounded and carry him to a hospital bed, where he is awarded the Iron Cross. When the mistake is found out, he is sent on to Stalag VIII-B, where he and another prisoner, Bill Pope, begin work on an escape plan.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Password Is Courage (1962)
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- In 2013, Shimon Peres, then president of Israel, disclosed that his father had been a fellow prisoner of Charles Coward's, and claimed some episodes in the film were based on his father's exploits.
- The National Ex-Prisoner of War Association said in a 2006 newsletter that some of Charles Coward's escape stories might have happened to other men in the camps, since no survivors of his escapes are known, and were borrowed for the book and film.
- The original cinema version of the film included a sequence set in Auschwitz concentration camp illustrated with drawings; it was cut from television broadcast prints, though a credit for the drawings remains in the film credits.
