An unexpected masterpiece

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This is an absorbing, exciting and thoroughly entertaining British POW drama which has a cast that reads like a veritable who's who of British character actors. Not one of them disappoints either, and there are especially sterling performances from Richard Todd, Bernard Lee and Richard Attenborough. In fact, it's a perfectly casted film which holds attention throughout, and has a plot which moves along nicely to a clever and quite novel conclusion. Although there are scores of similar films made on the subject, this is definitely one of the very best and, anyone who has not yet seen it will not be disappointed. Highly recommended!

It gets the high score it deserves for daring to be different in so many ways.Yes, its a POW film. Yes, their trying to escape.So why is it so different?Their jailers are the Italians who we so rarely see in POW films. We have a murder mystery, a Who Done It to solve! We also have a spy in the camp revealing the escape plans to the Italians.It's a pretty good name cast with Richard Todd, Richard Attenborough and William Franklyn as the more notable names.The film looks good, it's well scripted and you have an excellent bad guy in Benucci, the Italian Camp Commander.The great storyline that they find the man they think is the spy dead in a tunnel which totally throws them off starts the who done it. It also stops them thinking about spies until they do reveal who the actual traitor is (I won't spoil that for you).The ending after the escape is a tad weak, I would have liked to have watched more of their escape once they were outside the camp.Overall its a very decent movie for its age. Thumbs up and recommended to those who like their War or POW films.

Although similar but not as good as Stalag 17, this is one of the best British POW movies. The script is fast paced, the cast is excellent, the acting is top draw , without hamming it up. And like Stalag 17 there is a traitor in the camp. The film blends drama with a good whodunit, and throw in the Camp's production of Hamlet as a ploy to enable a mass escape is an absolute joy. Dennis Price, Bernard Lee,Richard Todd, Peter Arne and a who's who of British actor's make this such an enjoyable film. Richard Attenborough's performance as always is superb. I rate this film and recommend it to anyone who enjoys War-Drama movies. Danger Within is being shown on Channel Four on Tuesday afternoon 12th of July, please watch it, if i had a VCR i would record it!. This film deserves a quality DVD release in it's original aspect ratio, so whoever own's the rights please do something about it.

Just watched it on Channel 4 and loved it, very good cast and overall very enjoyable.Full of great actors including Richard Attenborough and Tony Todd A bit different from the usual escape movies, in that there's some intrigue and tension caused by a informer within the British ranks this results in the deaths of 4 British prisoners before they finally work out who it is.I do like the 50/60 British films and this is another that i will definitely watch again.