The Captive Heart (1946)

Pvt. Don Evans: [writing a letter home] How do you spell "sufficient"?
Cpl. Ted Horsfall: Same as a Sergeant-Major's blessing. Two "f"'s and one "c".

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Lt. Stephen Harley: [as Christmas of 1940 approaches] Last Christmas I had my first concert. It was where I met Caroline.
Capt. Karel Hasek, alias Geoffrey Mitchell: Last Christmas I was in Dachau Concentration Camp. Christmas Eve a new batch of prisoners came in. One of them brought me news of my family. They'd been caught giving food to a Polish Jew. They were taken out and shot. My father, my mother, all of them.

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Cpl. Ted Horsfall: I've had a letter, Don.
Pvt. Don Evans: The mail's in? Perhaps there's a letter for me, with news of the baby.
Cpl. Ted Horsfall: [downcast] There's no letter for you. There *is* news.
Pvt. Don Evans: Flo's all right? Not them raids...?
Cpl. Ted Horsfall: She's OK. The letter's from her. Don, it's a baby girl. She's doing nice. Dillis... You'll hear it sooner or later. It seemed the doctor warned her about it being dangerous, because of her age. But she wouldn't be put off. Flo was with her at the end. It went quite quickly. Flo's gonna look after the baby until you get back.

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Some of the actors, including Derek Bond and Sam Kydd, had actually been POWs during World War II.
The 1953 U.S. reissue title was "Captive Camp 23."
Considered to be the first WWII POW prisoner-of-war film.
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