Familiar, but well cast

Leofwine_draca

DANGER WITHIN is another WW2 flick about British soldiers trying to escape from a POW camp; this time around the setting is Italy rather than Germany or North Africa. It's a familiar enough effort that proves worth a watch thanks to the exemplary ensemble cast and the emphasis on the lean plot, which is always on escape and escape methods rather than adding in any extraneous material whatsoever. The hunt-the-traitor sub-plot is a nice addition too. Cast-wise, you get typical character work from Richard Attenborough and hard-headed heroism from Richard Todd; others like Bernard Lee, Dennis Price and Terence Alexander add tot the ambience. It's not a genre classic, but watchable if you like this stuff.

score 6/10

Leofwine_draca 12 July 2020

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