Captured! (1933)

5.5/10 69 min Drama Romance War

Overview

While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.

Cast

Leslie Howard

Captain Fred Allison

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Lieutenant Fred Digby

Paul Lukas

Colonel Carl Ehrlich

Margaret Lindsay

Monica Allison

Robert Barrat

The Commandant

Arthur Hohl

Cocky

John Bleifer

Strogin

J. Carrol Naish

Cpl. Guarand

Philip Faversham

Lieutenant Haversham

Frank Reicher

Herr Hauptman

Joyce Coad

Elsa

Bert Sprotte

Sergeant Major

Harry Cording

First Orderly

Halliwell Hobbes

British Major General

Robert Adair

Provost Marshal Officer (Uncredited)

Harry Allen

British Soldier Giving German a Cigarette (Uncredited)

Glen Cavender

German Sergeant at POW Camp (Uncredited)

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