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| runtime = 116 minutes | language = English | country = United Kingdom | budget = | gross = }} ''The Password is Courage'' is a 1962 film based on John Castle's 1954 Second World War memoir of the same name. It was written, produced and directed by Andrew L. Stone and stars Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy and Alfred Lynch. The film is a lighthearted take on the true story of Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, written under the pseudonym John Castle by Ronald Charles Payne and John Williams Garrod. ==Plot== Charles Coward (Dirk Bogarde) is a senior British NCO incarcerated in the POW camp Stalag VIII-B. He encourages his fellow inmates to escape, and tries to humiliate the German guards at every opportunity. Coward first attempts to escape by masquerading as a wounded German soldier. He is taken to hospital, where his identity is revealed, but not before being awarded the Iron Cross as he lies in his hospital bed. He then digs a tunnel, and, using a map he obtains from an attractive Polish resistance contact (Maria Perschy),〔Despite the film's title, the password actually turns out to be "cleaning cloths", which Bogarde's character discovers when he meets Maria Perschy's character〕 escapes with fellow prisoner Bill Pope (Alfred Lynch). They are captured at a railway station. After the failure of that escape, they then manage to escape again by masquerading as workmen clearing rubble in a rural area. After learning that the American front line is only a mile away, they steal an unattended fire engine to get past the German soldiers in between. Their plan works - a German troop convoy on the road moves aside to allow them to speed past to get to a non-existent fire - and they drive off to freedom. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Password Is Courage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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