Bogey

The Password is Courage (1962)

Dirk Bogarde stars in this WW2 POW story that claims to be based on a true story. A senior British NCO with a sense of humour and mischief makes trouble for the guards holding him prisoner.

This is a fairly entertaining film with a light hearted feel to it but is greatly over shadowed by the much better The Great Escape (1963). It seems that despite claiming a historical basis this film diverges greatly from the memoirs it is supposed to be based on (including stealing elements of the great escape) but even then it appears that the memoirs themselves may well be exaggerated at best. So this is a decent film but needs to be taken with a huge pinch of salt.

3/5