It almost sounds like "To Be Or Not To Be", which originally was released in 1942, then remade by Mel Brooks in 1983. On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 7:11 PM Dana Polan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I posted a version of this to h-film also but haven’t gotten any hits. > > I’m doing a project on the 1963 film The Great Escape and am looking at a > range of escape films. I have a memory from many years ago (so it could be > wrong) of some POW escape film ending with the escapees going out from > underneath a stage after some theatrical or vaudeville performance. My > recollection is that they go behind the curtains during the applause and > instead of coming out for the curtain call go into their tunnel. The last > shot in my memory of it is of a needle on a record they played as a > diversion going round and round. > > Does this ring a bell for anyone? It’s not The Colditz Story, which does > have an escape from under a theater BUT NOT as the last scene. It’s not The > McKenzie Break. I haven’t seen Huston’s Victory in a long time but plot > summaries on-line suggest they escape through a shower room. Hart’s War, as > I remember, ends with prisoners still in the camp at its liberation. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Dana > ---- > Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex > podcast: > http://www.screenlex.org > ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu