writers_reign Beginning in the late forties, peaking in the fifties, and still soldiering on in the sixties the POW film was to the British film industry what the Musical was to Hollywood, i.e. the same old actors ringing the changes on service - army, air force - and roles. Very occasionally they came up with a new angle and turned out something really substantial like Basil Dearden's The Captive Heart but for the most part it was Boy's Own Paper revisited and so it is here. The fact that it is based on a true story doesn't make it another Carve Her Name With Pride (another outstanding example of the genre) and the best you can give this is that it passes the time.

JohnHowardReid Although this prisoner-of-war picture packs all the familiar ingredients into its plot, somehow it fails to come across even a fraction as effectively as thirty or forty similar movies I could name. Of course, the cast presents a considerable stumbling block. Dirk Bogarde is the only actor who seems to be pulling his weight. Everyone else turns in such lightweight portrayals, you'd think they were vacationing in a holiday camp. Even the Germans are an unconvincing lot. On the plus side, the movie does present some spectacular moments for railroad buffs, and the photography is suitably bleak. All told, I suppose the movie would offer reasonable entertainment for those who haven't seen "The Wooden Horse", "The Colditz Story", "The Great Escape", etc. But for those who are well acquainted with these far more powerful accounts, "Password" is a limp offering indeed.

moatazmohsen78 A great message for humans to refuse any hard destiny and not surrender to a bad true and awful reality especially at war time under arrested and captured in Nazi campaign during WWII in the English army and the great Push from English Sergent to courage his soldiers to refuse practically the fact of captured under Nazisim to put an end for this war to continue their life and return to their families and lovers by turning exp losers , arms and militarily plans into love , flowers , great feelings and warm words under the sky , in front of shores and beyond the trees to make our world a brilliant paradise on this earth.The scene of escaping from Germany by a German girl and he fell with her in love give a serious point and side for film to create the drama of this story to reach for the happy end by escaping of two characters between many captured soldiers failed to reach for the same and happy fate.

raypdaley182 I've seen this film a lot. So much in fact, I've lost count. I always confuse it with "The Foreman Goes To France" because of the very similar type of endings that they both have.Dirk Bogarde is our hero, a British Army Sergeant-Major (who as an enlisted man later goes on to give his word as an Officer, slight mistake there). He's a prisoner of war and by the sounds of it he's been escaping from lots of places hence him being in a rather unpleasant camp as the film starts.Him and his best pal are constantly trying to escape or wind up The Goons. Most of the escapes get scuppered but they are often successful at upsetting the Germans and hindering them.They are digging a tunnel and disposing of the dirt in a storyline that was directly stolen by the film The Great Escape. Perhaps they were using the same techniques in a different camp. When pushed in tight situations people will come up with the same ideas in different places.Dirk is moved by The Germans to a lumber camp on a work detail to command some "lazy" troops. But The Germans have sent Dirk and his best pal into a trap to be killed by people who think they are spies, traitors or 5th columnists. Dirk fights his way through and defuses the situation bringing the so called "lazy" troops over to his way of thinking, to upset and confound The Germans.They manage to burn down the lumber camp and get sent to a train yard. At the train yard they sabotage trains, sending them to the wrong places.Finally Dirk makes contact with The Polish underground who give them maps and assistance to escape. Oh, and the password was actually "Cleaning Cloths", not Courage.They are sent back to their original camp and escape through a tunnel that was dug too short (again, another idea that The Great Escape stole from them). An old soldier with an accordion pretends to be drunk and saves a whole hut full of escaping men from being discovered.After a poor attempt at buying train tickets, making a fellow train passenger suspect them, they are caught by a badly forged travel document with a logo facing the wrong way.Dirk and his best pal finally escape posing as workers repairing bombed buildings who are finally met by retreating American soldiers telling them they are only a mile away from the Allied lines, but there are thousands of Germans in their way.Of course they steal a Fire Engine and The Germans stand aside to let them through and finally on the road to freedom.A good ending and an excellent film.