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Sex & Nudity

  • Actor Charles Bronson is seen in a brief shower sequence (the shower trap cleverly hides a tunnel shaft), but he is not visible from the waist down.

Violence & Gore

  • A man crashes through three bunks on a bed.
  • A man crashes his motorcycle into barbed wire, showing some cuts and scrapes.
  • There is also some motorcycle accidents.
  • There are scenes where men are killed by gunfire.
  • Nazi soldiers are shot in a drive-by shooting while they are sitting at a cafe. Brief but violent.

Profanity

  • 11 use of 'Bloody' and 2 uses of "For God's sake"
  • Brief mild language, such as "damn" and "hell."
  • Some uses of "kraut".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Some cigarette smoking by the Germans
  • Contains some scenes involving tobacco use.
  • There is also one scene involving moonshine.
  • There is a reference to "getting good and stoned" but it is referring to getting drunk, not high.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The escape and capture scenes are intense.

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Violence & Gore

  • Body count: 57
  • Two prisoners are shot offscreen. It is later made clear that a total of fifty prisoners were executed altogether, in violation of normal rules of warfare.
  • A man prisoner commits suicide by climbing the fence and being shot by the guards. His body hangs on the fence. Some blood is shown very briefly.
  • A plane carrying two escaped prisoners crashes, killing one of them (some blood).

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The scene where Archibald Ives is shot to death, and where his body is hanging in the barbed wire may be intense.

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