Captured!
Captured! (aka Fellow Prisoners) is a 1933 American pre-Code film about World War I prisoners of war in a German camp. The film was directed by Roy Del Ruth and stars Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Captured! was based on the short story "Fellow Prisoners" (1930) by Sir Philip Gibbs.
Plot
British Captain Fred Allison bids farewell to his new wife, Monica, whom he has only known for six days, and sets out to serve in World War I. He ends up a prisoner of war (POW), tortured by the fact that his wife has not written to him since the early days of his two year captivity.
More details
| author | Edward Chodorov |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Germany |
| director | Roy Del Ruth |
| editor | William Holmes |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | best friend bloodshed dead body firing squad fly guard kill locked in machine machine gun oxford plan prisoner of war rape and murder royal flying corps steal university of oxford world war i |
| musicBy | Bernhard Kaun |
| producer | Edward Chodorov |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. |
| publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. |
| theme | romantic drama war |