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Captured! is a american film of genre Drama directed by Roy Del Ruth released in USA on 19 august 1933 with Leslie Howard
Captured! (1933)
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Add to a movie listCaptured! is a 1933 American Pre-Code film about World War I prisoners of war in a German camp. It stars Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and was based on the short story "Fellow Prisoners" by Sir Philip Gibbs.
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British Captain Fred Allison (Leslie Howard) bids farewell to his new wife, Monica (Margaret Lindsay), whom he has only known for six days, and sets out for the war. He ends up a prisoner of war (POW), tortured by the fact that his wife has not written to him since the early days of his two year captivity.Actors
Leslie Howard
(Captain Fred Allison)
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
(Lieutenant Fred Digby)
Robert Barrat
(The Commandant)
Paul Lukas
(Colonel Carl Ehrlich)
Arthur Hohl
(Cocky)
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