June 8, 2026… #movieoftheday is The One That Got Away (full movie) (1957). “The One That Got Away is a 1957 British biographical, war film starring Hardy Krüger and featuring Michael Goodliffe , Jack Gwillim and Alec McCowen . The film was directed by Roy Ward Baker with a screenplay written by Howard Clewes, based on the 1956 book of the same name by Kendal Burt and James Leasor . “The film chronicles the true exploits of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra , a Luftwaffe pilot shot down over Britain in 1940. He initially tried to escape while captive in England but was later successful during transfer to a Canadian POW camp. Von Werra was the only Axis POW to succeed in escaping and make it home during the war.” - more at Wikipedia