Stalag 17 [SEP] based on
- Edmund Trzcinski as himself/"Triz"
- Paul Salata as Prisoner with Beard (uncredited)
Production.
Production Original Broadway production.
The film was adapted by Wilder and Edwin Blum from the Broadway play by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski which was based on their experiences as prisoners in Stalag 17B in Austria. Trzcinski appears in the film as a prisoner.
The play was directed by José Ferrer and was the Broadway debut of John Ericson as Sefton. First presented at the Edwin Burke Memorial Theater of The Lambs,
POW camp during World War II. The film was based on the book "The Great Escape" by Paul Brickhill, which is a novelization of the true story of a mass escape from Stalag Luft III.
When Justice Jackson resigned his position as prosecutor after the first (and only) trial before the IMT and returned to the U.S., Colonel Telford Taylor was promoted to Brigadier General and succeeded him on October 17, 1946, as Chief Counsel for the remaining twelve trials before the U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunals. In these