Where do I stand for a corner kick?

Rating: 7/10 (19 November 2009)

A real guilty pleasure, this one - so very wrong, it's right. John Huston (yes, that one) directs Michael Caine, (a terrible) Sylvester Stallone and a host of football legends, including Ossie Ardiles, Bobby Moore - and the godlike, bicycle-kicking Pelé in this Nazis vs Tommies kickabout.
The seemingly ludicrous plot (a POW escape smokescreened by a none-more patriotic football match) actually has its basis in cold hard fact: in occupied Ukraine, Nazi officers did indeed challenge Dynamo Kiev to games of soccer. Rather unsportingly however, the Gestapo packed the winners off to concentration camps. It's just not cricket.