In the end, Stalag 17's irreverence likely didn't revolutionize moviemaking for adults so much as it paved the way for the likes of M*A*S*H and Animal House. Then again, that alone is an ...

Animal. Wilder's film also prompted a lawsuit a few years down the line, when the original playwrights sued the creators of Hogan's Heroes for infringement. Stalag 17 is set in a stalag ...

“Stalag 17” (Billy Wilder ... With commandant Otto Preminger, Don Taylor, and Robert Strauss as “Animal.” “Papillon” (Franklin Schaffner, 1973) at 9:15 p.m. on AMC.

“Stalag 17,” the play about life and death in a ... essentially about snappish animals crowded into a cage and boiling with aggressions they can only take out on one another.

“Stalag 17,” which was shot in sequence ... who earned an Oscar nomination as the Betty Grable fixated Animal. Wilder also reaped an Oscar bid for best director.