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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Prude on December 26, 2025, 10:05:55 AM
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This movie has given ideas to prisoners in many countries. In your Hmong community,
there was a dig and a flawless escape around 1986 or so in Ban Vinai when the
Thai prison guards fell asleep deep into the night one time.
The film was shown by a Thai mobile theater around 1979 in Ban Vinai. The Hmong prisoners
were smugglers and opium addicts who were locked up in a dirt-only cell near the exit of the camp.
In several African countries, a few prisoners have also dug under the walls and left into the deep
jungles without being recaptured. Those escapes came after this movie made its way to that continent.
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This scene is the best from that Western movie. The entire movie is based on true stories of war-time pilots who
dug a tunnel to escape the Stalag Luft III prison in Germany in March 1944.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-qHlz4hfak (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-qHlz4hfak)