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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Wooden_HorseThe Wooden Horse - Wikipedia

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   The Wooden Horse is a 1950 British World War II war film directed by Jack Lee and starring Leo Genn, David Tomlinson and Anthony Steel. It is based on the book of the same name by Eric Williams, who also wrote the screenplay. The film depicts the true events of an escape attempt made by POWs in the German prison camp Stalag Luft III.

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3. www.imdb.com › title › tt0043147The Wooden Horse (1950) - IMDb

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   A 1950 war film based on a true story of three British prisoners of war who devise a clever way to tunnel out of a Nazi camp. The film features Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel and other actors, and was nominated for a BAFTA Award.

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   • Genre: Drama, History, War

   • Director: Jack Lee, Ian Dalrymple
   • Release Date: 1951-09-07

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Eric_Williams_(writer)Eric Williams (writer) - Wikipedia

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   Eric Williams MC (13 July 1911 – 24 December 1983) was an English writer and former Second World War RAF pilot and prisoner of war (POW) who wrote several books dealing with his escapes from prisoner-of-war camps, most famously in his 1949 novel The Wooden Horse, made into a 1950 movie of the same name .

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6. archive.org › details › the-wooden-horseThe Wooden Horse : Jack Lee : Free Download, Borrow, and ...

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   Jun 7, 2021 · One British officer has the idea of starting a daily gymnastics routine using a vaulting horse: they can place it near the boundary and start a tunnel from under it. He and two others do escape the camp by this means and plan to make for neutral Sweden.

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7. www.imdb.com › title › tt0043147The Wooden Horse (1950) - Plot - IMDb

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   A true story of three British POWs who escape from Nazi Germany using a vaulting horse as a cover. Find out how they plan to reach neutral Sweden and what challenges they face along the way.

8. www.screenonline.org.uk › film › idBFI Screenonline: Wooden Horse, The (1950)

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   A film about the famous escape of three British POWs from Stalag Luft III during World War II. Based on a novel by Eric Williams, the film shows the realism and austerity of the camp life and the challenges of the escape plan.

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   Is the wooden horse based on a true story?

   • The Wooden Horse is a 1950 British World War II war film directed by Jack Lee and starring Leo Genn, David Tomlinson and Anthony Steel. It is based on the book of the same name by Eric Williams, who also wrote the screenplay. The film depicts the true events of an escape attempt made by POWs in the German prison camp Stalag Luft III.

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   What is a wooden horse based on?

   • A group of Allied POWs held captive by the Nazis in Stalag Luft III hatch an audacious plan (inspired by Greek mythology) to use an exercise vaulting horse to disguise their escape tunnelling activities. Based on Eric Williams ' novel The Tunnel Escape, The Wooden Horse (d.

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   What is a wooden horse in Stalag Luft 3?

   • The film depicts the true events of an escape attempt made by POWs in the German prison camp Stalag Luft III. The wooden horse in the title of the film is a piece of exercise equipment the prisoners use to conceal their escape attempt as well as a reference to the Trojan Horse which was also used to conceal men within.

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   Who invented the Wooden Horse plan?

   • The Wooden Horse plan itself was previously thought to be conceived and entirely thought through by Williams and Michael Codner in equal measures. In Oliver Philpot 's later book The Stolen Journey, the author made it clear that he initially thought the plan was "crackers", telling its inventors "I give it a couple of days!"

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   Who was Peter Butterworth in wooden horse?

   • Peter Butterworth was one of the vaulters who covered for the real-life Wooden Horse escape. He auditioned for a part in the film after the war, but was turned down on the grounds that he didn't look convincingly heroic and athletic enough. Whilst the escape is in progress, there is a quick shot of a German guard near the compound fence.

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   Who invented the wooden horse escape technique?

   • However, it has been argued that Flt Lt Dominic Bruce (the 'Medium Sized man') and Squadron Leader Peter Tunstall are the original innovators of the wooden horse escape technique. Along with Eustace Newborn and Peter Tunstall, Bruce came up with the escape plan now known as "the Swiss Red Cross Commission."

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10. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › the_wooden_horseThe Wooden Horse | Rotten Tomatoes

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    Three British POW officers (Leo Genn, Anthony Steel, David Tomlinson) escape from a stalag by tunneling under an outdoor gym horse.

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