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1. Who directed this film?
2. William Holden played the leading role of J.J. Sefton and won the Best Actor Oscar for '53?
3. What famous actor-director played the part of the camp commander, Oberst Von Sherbach?
4. Who played the part of Price/"Security"?
5. Robert Strauss played the part of:
6. Harvey Lembeck played the part of:
7. What branch of the German armed forces ran the camp?
8. What were the names of the two prisoners who were killed while attempting to escape at the beginning of the film?
9. What was the nickname of Sefton's go-fer and narrator of the film?
10. What was the military rank of all the prisoners (except Dunbar)?
11. Whenever Marco the Mailman wanted the men to quiet down, what did he say?
12. Why did Animal and Shapiro pretend to be painting a white line down a muddy roadway?
13. Feldwebel Schulz had been to the U.S. before the war. What was his job there?
14. After his capture, Lieutenant Dunbar blew up an ammunition train using a simple incendiary device fabricated from what common items?
15. Price and Schulz used hollowed out chess pieces to pass written messages to each other.
16. What was the visible signal between Price and Schulz that a message was waiting to be picked up?
17. What items were ground up to make the smoke bomb used to cover the rescue of Dunbar from the Gestapo?
18. What was Sefton's stated reason for volunteering to take Dunbar out of the camp?
19. Where was Dunbar hidden until the escape?
20. After the escape, Animal speculated that the reason that Sefton volunteered was so that he could "steal our _________". What was the item?
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