The Secret War of Harry Frigg

The Secret War of Harry Frigg is a 1968 comedy film set in World War II. It was directed by Jack Smight and starred Paul Newman.

Headquarters devises a plot to free them by sending in Harry Frigg Paul Newman. Frigg is a private in the U.S. Army who is forever escaping from military stockades he is usually put inside them as he does not want to be a private in the U.S Army. As an incentive, he is promised a promotion to sergeant after the generals have been freed. Accepting the mission, Frigg is promoted to major general so that he will outrank all the prisoners, assume command and lead the resultant breakout. Parachuted behind enemy lines, Frigg allows himself to be captured, and is imprisoned in the same jail as the brigadiers. While they are initially skeptical of his rank, he has been given a few personal secrets about them that only a senior officer might be expected to know.Frigg discovers a secret passage from his bedroom to the gatehouse outside the villas fence, which he intends to use to escape with the other generals but Friggs plan is put on hold when he becomes romantically involved with Countess Francesca De Montefiore Sylva Koscina, the owner of the castle where they are imprisoned. Eventually, after a romantic interlude the escape plan is reactivated. ........

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