- Director: Billy Wilder
A Broadway masterpiece adapted into a film.
Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski had found themselves prisoners in the Stalag 17B prison camp for air force sergeants in Austria during WW-II. At the end of the war, they decided to turn their experience into a BroadÂway masterpiece which Billy Wilder and Edwin Blum eventually adapted into a film. The story was already a massive hit by then바카라”Broadway had seen 472 performances. Wilder neeÂded that guarantee of succÂess since his previous film Ace in the Hole had been a spectacular failure in box-offÂice and profit terms. Yet, Wilder saw his own creative interventions as the sole reason for the film바카라™s success: 바카라śI think I impÂroved it 100 per cent, if I say so myself.바카라ť But it was not all smooth. Otto Preminger, who played the commandant of the prison camp, was so bad at remembering his lines that he promised Wilder he바카라™d bring caviar every time he forgot a line. Thankfully, although by the end of the film Wilder had recÂeived many pounds of caviar, Preminger had given an unforgettable performance.