![]() ![]() A glider is built in secret in an attic, which will be able to take two men out. Cook plots escape, while keeping the scientist's true identity from both the Germans and his fellow prisoners.Ĭook comes up with an escape plan to fly out of the castle all the way to nearby Switzerland. ![]() The pair are captured, but their cover story, that they are escaped Allied air force prisoners of war, is believed by the Germans, and they are sent to the "escape-proof" Beckstadt Castle. agent Major Cook is assigned to take Halden Brevik, a Norwegian scientist with knowledge about the atomic bomb, out of occupied Europe to the Allies. The film was shot at Universal Studios Hollywood and released theatrically in several countries. The film appeared on the ABC Movie of the Week on September 18, 1971. ![]() It was a fictionalized account based on a proposed scheme for prisoners of war to escape from Colditz Castle by a clandestinely constructed glider christened the Colditz Cock. The Birdmen, also known as Escape of the Birdmen and Colditz: Escape of the Birdmen, is a 1971 television film directed by Philip Leacock and starring Doug McClure and René Auberjonois. American TV series or program The Birdmen ![]()
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