In my limited and amateur stage career, the most taxing emotionally of the plays I have been in is
The Diary of Anne Frank. This is a daunting text for any amateur group but we were brilliantly directed by JK and, I think, pulled it off. By its very subject matter it has to be a claustrophobic piece and I had my doubts that it could properly be presented on film. Having watched the 1959 movie, I still have those doubts. Don't get me wrong, the film works but its presentation in Cinemascope is plain wrong. As well the film suffers from one particular piece of miscasting and is too long. I would still recommend it but this frighteneng tale fits better on the stage. 70/100.
The Colditz Story may share the same historical space as
Anne Frank, but is different kettle of fish altogether. This is a broadly faithful telling of the
Boy's Own heroics of would-be escapees from Nazi imprisonment. There is a predictably reliable troupe of British character actors on display and it rattles along. 69/100.
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