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The Password Is Courage (1962)
Director: Andrew L Stone
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Although frequent sticklers for authenticity (they sank a real ship for The Last Voyage), writer/director Andrew Stone and his producer wife Virginia turned English villages into enemy Germany in this unexpected take on the true-life WWII heroism of a certain Sgt-Maj Coward, the scourge of Nazi PoW camps (he bartered, at one point, to save prisoners in Auschwitz). Often played for fun, it doesn't quite come off, but at least it's a variation on the usual stiff-upper-lip routine. Based on John Castle's biography of Charles Coward.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Andrew L Stone
Producer: Andrew L Stone, Virginia Stone
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Alfred Lynch, Nigel Stock, Reginald Beckwith, Richard Marner, Ed Devereaux, Colin Blakely, Ferdy Mayne full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 116 mins
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