A must-see movie!

Rating: 8/10 (18 December 2017)

As mentioned by other reviewers, prisoner-of-war movies would seem a natural venue for film noir. Certainly Billy Wilder's cynically moody Stalag 17 (1953) (available on a 10/10 Paramount DVD) qualifies, despite (or possibly because of) its unpleasantly realistic comic relief from Robert Strauss and company.
William Holden won and thoroughly deserved the year's Best Actor award for his biting portrait of the amorally self-serving Sefton, while Otto Preminger (in his last on-screen movie role (before concentrating on producing and directing) captures our second-most degree of attention (Holden, of course, is number one) as the camp colonel.
Other famous POW movies tend to be more light-hearted as well as intentionally escapist (in both senses of that word).
If only for William Holden's performance, "Stalag 17" certainly rates as a must-see movie!