{"id":356,"date":"2011-07-10T11:58:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T15:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2011-07-11T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T04:20:05","slug":"day-11-stalag-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Day Eleven: Stalag 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stalag-Special-Collectors-William-Holden\/dp\/B000CNESN0\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1310355535&#038;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.27DaysWithBillyWilderAndMe.com\/img\/Stalag17.jpg\" alt=\"Stalag 17\" width=\"150\" height=\"220\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Billy Wilder&#8217;s eleventh movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0046359\/\"><em>Stalag 17<\/em><\/a>, starring William Holden, was released in 1953. Billy was 47 years old.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great movie, one I&#8217;ve seen many times. And I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll see it many more times to come.<\/p>\n<p>In typical Billy Wilder fashion, it relies heavily on narration, well-rounded characters, and clever plotting. <\/p>\n<p>William Holden &#8212; fresh from <i>Sunset Boulevard<\/i> &#8212; won an Oscar for his portrayal of J.J. Sefton, a prisoner of war in Stalag 17 wrongly accused of being a stoolie.<\/p>\n<p><b>Principle Cast<\/b>:<br \/>\nSgt. J.J. Sefton&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;William Holden (1918\u20131981)<br \/>\nLt. James Dunbar&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Don Taylor (1920\u20131998)<br \/>\nOberst von Scherbach&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Otto Preminger (1905\u20131986)<br \/>\nSgt. Stanislaus &#8216;Animal&#8217; Kuzawa&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Robert Strauss (1913\u20131975)<br \/>\nSgt. Harry Shapiro&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Harvey Lembeck (1923\u20131982)<br \/>\nSgt. &#8216;Hoffy&#8217; Hoffman&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Richard Erdman (1925- )<br \/>\nSgt. Price&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Peter Graves (1926\u20132010)<br \/>\nDuke&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Neville Brand (1920\u20131992)<\/p>\n<p><i>Stalag 17<\/i> was written by Billy Wilder, Edwin Blum, and Donald Bevan. It was based on the play by Edmund Trzcinski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Wilder&#8217;s eleventh movie, Stalag 17, starring William Holden, was released in 1953. Billy was 47 years old. This is a great movie, one I&#8217;ve seen many times. And I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll see it many more times to come. In typical Billy Wilder fashion, it relies heavily on narration, well-rounded characters, and clever plotting. William [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84,73,34,90,86,89,85,88,92,91,87,66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}