Britain's top comic talents are behind this sharply-observed comedy drama set in a POW camp in Germany. Stephen Fry is the arrogant RAF Officer James Forrester, Nicholas Lyndhurst stars as the insubordinate Chump Cosgrove and Geoffrey Palmer is the twitchy Camp Kommandant.
In a spoof of the great wartime escape movies, arrogant RAF Officer James Forrester, who has 23 escape attempts to his name and zero escapes, plans the big one, the escape of all 327 prisoners from a POW camp in Germany. The only problem is he expects them to escape all at once......