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Drama: War & Disaster

14/12/1997

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World War II story about Allied prisoners who stage a breakout from an Italian POW camp.

Frank Sinatra stars in an action-packed World War II story about Allied prisoners who stage a mass breakout from an Italian POW camp and commandeer a train.

Action-packed World War II story about Allied prisoners who stage a mass breakout from an Italian POW camp, commandeer a train and head towards the Swiss border. As the Italian war effort collapses, the escapees are aided by their erstwhile captors, but when the Germans catch on, they set out to halt the escape with an armoured train and aerial attack.

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