Victory

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Victory

PG,

1981,

1h 57m,

Action

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The head of a German POW camp, soccer enthusiast Karl von Steiner (Max von Sydow) organizes a match between Nazi players and their Allied captives. Orchestrated as a way to push the Third Reich agenda, the high-profile game is set to feature an international team led by John Colby (Michael Caine), a veteran British player. While the team, which also includes Luis Fernandez (Pelé) of Trinidad, trains for the match, Robert Hatch (Sylvester Stallone) plans a dangerous mass escape from the camp.

Gavin Bainbridge

Empire Magazine

Aug 13, 2010

3/5

Huston, showing admirable range in his old age, creates enough on-field magic and nostalgia for the beatiful game as an idyll of now-extinct sportsmanship.

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Time Out

Aug 13, 2010

Unsatisfactory both for fans of star-studded prison escape dramas and for football fans hoping to see cunningly devised tactics from Pele and his squad of internationals.

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

Aug 13, 2010

3/5

The form of the film is conventional, but the manner in which it has been executed is not.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Jul 8, 2023

3/5

…best enjoyed as a simple-minded Boys Own sporting daydream for worldwide man-children…

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Common Sense Media Editors

Common Sense Media

Dec 14, 2022

3/5

But in terms of pure nostalgia and its sense of fun, Victory has aged surprisingly well as a boys' own adventure played out by the alpha males of its day.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Mar 5, 2020

2/4

Intermittently entertaining if also exceedingly imbecilic.

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Theodore R

Apr 11, 2019

You might like it or not, but "Escape to Victory" is kinda memorable. For the cast, if anything else.

Finn M

Dec 20, 2018

An all-star cast in a sports drama that shows adequate sportsmanship

Leia P

Sep 8, 2018

A hard to find really nice film featuring Stallone in soccer. Who could imagine. He pulls it off as an American pressed into action as a goaltender, and a pretty decent one at that. Who doesn't like Michael Caine in anything, and Von Sydow is always perfectly evil when he wants to be. This is a fun watch and an inspiring and educational one as well. I can't believe this has flown so far below the radar for so many decades.

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Kylo S

Dec 26, 2017

A great little movie for footy(English and the rest of the world football) basically if you have no idea who Pele and Bobby Moore are you will probably not care much... If you do...you will remember countless afternoons trying to reenact Pele's over-head kick!

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Kylo M

Apr 14, 2017

This film was further proof that John Huston was packed with vigor even 40 years after The Maltese Falcon, but very thin dramatically.

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Synopsis

The head of a German POW camp, soccer enthusiast Karl von Steiner (Max von Sydow) organizes a match between Nazi players and their Allied captives. Orchestrated as a way to push the Third Reich agenda, the high-profile game is set to feature an international team led by John Colby (Michael Caine), a veteran British player. While the team, which also includes Luis Fernandez (Pelé) of Trinidad, trains for the match, Robert Hatch (Sylvester Stallone) plans a dangerous mass escape from the camp.

Director: John Huston
Producer: Freddie Fields
Screenwriter: Evan Jones, Yabo Yablonsky
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Lorimar Film Entertainment
Rating: PG
Genre: Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 16, 1981, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2009
Runtime: 1h 57m
Sound Mix: Surround

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