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Escape to Victory
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })A 1981 film (also known as Victory in North America) set during World War II, in which a football team formed by Allied prisoners of war is forced to face a German team.Starring Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone and Max von Sydow, it also featured several professional footballers such as Bobby Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles, Kazimierz Deyna, Paul Van Himst, Mike Summerbee, Hallvar Thoresen, Werner Roth and, most famously, Pelé, as well as several Ipswich Town players.John Colby (Michael Caine) is a former professional footballer, now prisoner of war in a German camp, who gets roped in by the German camp commander (Max von Sydow) to have a team of his choosing play an exhibition match against a German team. While Colby begins to get his team ready for the game (which includes several POWs from other camps, and Antillan Luis Fernandez (Pelé)), Canadian Robert Hatch (Sylvester Stallone) is trying to escape the camp, and gets into the team to get advantage of the relaxed security around the team. When it turns out that the game will be played in Paris, the French Resistance agrees to help the team escape at halftime, but when the choice becomes between escaping and winning the match, things change a lot.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); }) | |
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Separated by a Common Language: Soccer not being popular in North America at the time, Hatch misunderstands what a "tackle" is in soccer. However, because of his experience using his hands in Canadian Football, he is the natural choice to be the goalkeeper. | |
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Tokyo Rose | |
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Tokyo Rose: A "Lord Haw-Haw" type is shown commentating the soccer match. | |
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Officer and a Gentleman | |
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Officer and a Gentleman: And a football player (or former football player). There's a decent amount of respect between German officers and Allied officers who played football, doubly so if they met each other before. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Was based on a Real Life incident in Ukraine with a much more depressing Downer Ending. The occupying Nazis forced the Ukrainian team to play several matches against them as a publicity stunt. When the home team Curb Stomped them, the Nazis had them tortured, shipped off to work camps, and executed. | |
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Unnecessary Roughness | |
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Unnecessary Roughness: the Germans tend to use quite brutal moves to attempt to knock the team out. They do knock out Luis Fernandez for most of the game. Earlier in the movie, Hatch is criticized by Colby for tackling one of the camp mates in the American football way. | |
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Cardboard Pal / int_de6424dc | |
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Great Escape / int_de6424dc | |
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Master Forger / int_de6424dc | |
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POW Camp / int_de6424dc | |
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Underdogs Never Lose / int_de6424dc | |
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