The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Extremely enjoyable POW yarn based on the real-life exploits of one, Charley Coward, (Dirk Bogarde), who made it his mission as a prisoner during the Second World War to make life hell for the Germans before finally escaping. Andrew L Stone wrote and directed the picture in an unusually jocular fashion and a host of British character actors make for a rumbustious bunch or prisoners as well as the odd German, including the always reliable Reginald Beckwith as a very camp commandant. It's no great shakes as a movie but it's certainly entertaining with Stone throwing a lot of broad comedy into the mix without sacrificing any of the basic excitement.

I thought it was a very entertaining film, as good as the Great Escape. But the facts prove that most of these events did not happen. Mr Coward, IMO, fabricated a lot of it to build his own story and ego. Check it out if you do not believe me. Despite a grandson of his claiming that Coward's story is totally true, the facts do not substantiate this.I would like to believe that Mr Coward was indeed a brave man, but honorable? And just because he acted as a technical adviser on the film proves nothing. Just a man who is repeating his exaggerations to the film's producers. Who is to call him a liar? There is no substantive evidence of what he claims is true. I have researched it throughly.IMO, Coward (what an irony) cobbled together a number of stories of other exploits to form his own little story. And he was not the only one to do such. But how disingenuous, when knowing that there would not be people to collaborate his story.The film was good entertainment though. But fantasy for a large part. There are so many holes in the story that it is a wonder that Alice did not fall through some of those holes.

The Password is Courage is another one of those "prisoner of war escape movies" but is not ""Just"" a typical pow escape movie. This movie in particular is one of my all-time favorite movies of this type. Dirk Bogarde portrays a real-life personality in the name of Sergeant Major Coward. I think that Bogardes acting in this film was most excellent and is one reason why this film must be remembered and brought back into mainstream movie watching.This film though is a serious film, also has many comical moments in it as well. One moment I really liked was when the Allied POWs managed to sabotage two German trains by switching their delivery signs around as well as sabotaging parts on the trains to make sure the trains wrecked. Another comical moment is when their camp was almost burnt down to the ground when they made sure a careless German Unteroffizier, who had a routine when he smoked his pipe, that the allied prisoners quickly caught onto and set up an elaborate plan. The plan was that they switched the sand in the Fire-buckets with Petrol--un-beknownst by the German guards.On a particular windy day, the German NCO was careless a usual, by throwing his match into a pile of wood--which immediately started a fire. The POWs then threw the contents of the buckets onto the fire--making it rapidly spread. In short, they almost completed in burning down that camp.This movie was so well made that it really needs to be released in DVD so that we all can enjoy watching it over and over again.

I've just finished watching this film for the first time in many years and found it disappointing. The only thing that kept me viewing is the fact that my father was incarcerated in Stalag 8b (the setting for the majority of the film). Although this film is historically correct for the most part the detail is very inaccurate, the acting almost amateur and the depiction of conditions makes the Stalag look like a holiday camp, which it certainly was not.As with the previous comment I can only assume that this is an attempt to make light of a situation that meant many years of hardship and misery for many brave men. Unless you have a personal interest in the film subject I wouldn't bother watching.