Dec 28th
Escape to Victory*
aka: Victory
National Film Theatre

During WWII a football match between German soldiers and Allied PoWs is used by the Nazis as propaganda, but the prisoners also use it as a chance to escape.
Old fashioned, escapist (literally) Roy of the Rovers-style yarn, an affectionate rip-off of PoW film cliches to begin with (The Great Escape, Albert R.N., etc.), with the underwhelming Sylvester Stallone instead of Steve McQueen at the centre of things, followed by a football match that becomes more fun than the film itself, featuring real-life footballers who acquit themselves quite well, both on and off the field.



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