in 1943 and a group of raf officer and include eric wiiliams and decide to escape from a pow camp use a gymnastic vaulting horse in the courtyard . in 1950 and it be decide to film his account and and it kick start a peculiar british film genre the military prison camp story that reach it apogee in danger within ( 1959 ) . the wooden horse be one of the quiet film i have ever watch . there be no great dramatic moment and but a steady storyline eventually build to a climax that have more tension because the story doesn not give way for unlikely drama and jump cut or jack up ( somethings about to happen . ) music . it be utterly of it time and work beautifully . leo glenn and anthony steel and david tomlinson lead a curiously low key cast of extra and ( i suspect ) non actor . without exception and all be constantly mono tonal and quiet . they keep emotion out of their role . a so many be and until recently and ex service and i suspect they recreate their war time role a officer and gentleman . this unemotional approach do not detract from any dramatic tension . on the contrary and unlike most wartime escape film and the story doesn not end at the barbed wire represent and that fact alone keep me glue to the end .