The Secret War of Harry Frigg
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Major General...Harry Frigg, played by Academy Award-winning actor Paul Newman, is promoted overnight to Major General in the 1968 war comedy, The Secret War of Harry Frigg. The third Judge Adovocate General of the show JAG (1995-2005) is a Major... In this article: Pakistan Army, Royal Air Force, Bartholomew Bandy, Marshal Berthier, United States Army, and NATO |
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The Secret War of Harry Frigg
The Secret War of Harry Frigg is a 1968 comedy film, directed by Jack Smight and starring Paul Newman. Harry Frigg (played by Paul Newman) is a private in the U.S. Army, who is forever escaping from military prisons. Several Brigadier...
In this article: Paul Newman, U.S. Army, Jack Smight, Sylva Koscina, Italy, and U.S.
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War film
Other fictional P.O.W. films include The Captive Heart (1947), Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), King Rat '' (1965), ''Danger Within (1958), The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968) and Hart's War (2002). Unusually, the British industry also...
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Sylva Koscina
...of Hercules (Steve Reeves) in Hercules '' (1958) and ''Hercules Unchained (1960). She also played Paul Newman's romantic interest in The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968). She moved to Italy as a teenager, during the Second World War, and...
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Techniscope
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Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending (the black comedy being an exception). One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies...
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The Secret War of Harry Frigg is a 1968 comedy film, directed by Jack Smight and starring Paul Newman.
Harry Frigg (played by Paul Newman) is a private in the U.S. Army, who is forever escaping from military prisons.
Several Brigadier Generals from the Allied forces (U.S., British, French, etc), are unexpectedly taken prisoner by the Italians while in the shower - which is a public relations disaster. This is compounded by the fact that the Generals are being held in an Italian Villa, and are unable to escape because, being all of the same rank, none is in command and they are forced to plan by committee, with predictably ineffective results.
Headquarters devises a plot to free these generals by sending in jail escape expert Harry Frigg, who is promised a cushy job after the war. Frigg agrees, and is promoted from Private to Major-General, so that he can pull rank on the mere Brigadiers. Frigg allows himself to be captured, and is imprisoned in the same jail as the Brigadiers. While they are initially skeptical of his rank, he has been given a few personal secrets about the Brigadiers, which proves his authenticity.
Frigg's plan to free all the generals is put on hold when he becomes romantically involved with the Countess (Sylva Koscina) who owns the castle where they are imprisoned. The escape plans are reactivated when Italy surrenders and the Germans take the generals to a high-security prison camp. Frigg eventually frees them all, and ends the war as a Second Lieutenant in charge of a radio station, using the Countess's castle as its base.
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