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Bookmark this pageEscape to Victory (1981)
Director: John Huston
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Unsatisfactory both for fans of star-studded prison escape dramas and for football fans hoping to see cunningly devised tactics from Pele and his squad of internationals (half the Ipswich team in addition to Moore and Ardiles). If one buys the barely plausible notion of a squad of PoW soccer stars escaping from a Paris stadium, one is still constantly reminded by the rip-off music score just how inferior this is to The Great Escape. Stallone comes off best among the familiar gallery of Nazi and prisoner stereotypes.Author: RM
Cast & crew
Director: John Huston
Producer: Freddie Fields
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow, Amidou, Daniel Massey, Pele, Bobby Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles full cast
Duration: 117 mins
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