Escape to Victory

United States

Football plays a central role of the film. A team of Allied prisoners of war POWs, coached and led by English Captain John Colby Michael Caine, a professional footballer for West Ham United before the war, agree to play an exhibition match against a German team, only to find themselves involved in a German propaganda stunt.Colby is the captain and essentially the manager of the team and thus chooses his squad of players. Another POW, US Army Capt. Robert Hatch Sylvester Stallone, on enlisted TDY to the Canadian Army, is not initially chosen, but eventually nags the reluctant Colby into letting him on the team as the teams trainer, as Hatch needs to be with the team to facilitate his upcoming escape attempt. ........

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