At ease! Today we'll be enjoying an early World War II dramedy by legendary director Billy Wilder.

An ensemble piece, the film tells the story of American airmen in a German POW camp.

While the overarching narrative concerns one of the inmates betraying them to their hapless German

captors, the story is largely a series of light vignettes in which the soldiers get into all kinds of hijinks.

From listening to the BBC on a clandestine radio to distilling alcohol and cross-dressing for help their Christmas party.

The rat in their midst transmits information to the Germans that one of the men is responsible

for sabotaging a military train.

And in order to help their comrade escape, the group closes ranks.

Eventually, the informant is caught, and it's the last man anyone suspected.

He is sent outside the barracks at night to distract the guards while two men escaped the prison.

It's a classic from 1953 that inspired innumerable imitations, and it's our movie today on friendly fire.

Achtung, sergeants.

It's Stalog 17. You're listening to Friendly Fire, a war movie podcast where two of the hosts are.

You're listening to Friendly Fire, a war movie podcast where two of the hosts are tunneling for freedom

but won't let me in on the escape plan I'm Ben Harrison I like that

Nailed it!

Real Radio!

I'm just mad at you

I'm just mad at you because you keep winning all my cigarettes, Ben. You're so jealous of my, you know, these days it would be, it would be Max, right?

It would be canes of mackerel?

It really, like it's a movie that answers the question how much are you allowed to enjoy being a prisoner of war

Before the other prisoners get super angry at you I I watched this last night with my wife and her take was that the

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