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.