The Wooden Horse

The Wooden Horse is a 1950 British Second World War war film starring Leo Genn, Anthony Steel and David Tomlinson and directed by Jack Lee. It is based on the book of the same name by Eric Williams, who also wrote the screenplay.

The somewhat fictionalised version of the true story is set in Stalag Luft III the same POW camp where the real events depicted in the film The Great Escape took place, albeit from a different compound and involved Williams, Michael Codner and Oliver Philpot, all inmates of the camp. In the book and film, the escapees are renamed Flight Lieutenant Peter Howard, Captain John Clinton and Philip Rowe.The prisoners are faced with the problem of digging an escape tunnel despite the accommodation huts, within which the tunnel entrance could be concealed, being a considerable distance from the perimeter fence. They came up with an ingenious way of digging the tunnel with its entrance located in the middle of an open area relatively near the perimeter fence and using a vaulting horse constructed largely from plywood from Canadian Red Cross parcels to cover the entrance. ........

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