A soldier's superior officers decide to put his remarkable skill at breaking out of military prisons to good use. Five generals have fallen into enemy hands, so they arrange for the escape artist to be captured and sent to the same prison so he can organise a break-out. Second World War comedy, starring Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina, Andrew Duggan and Tom Bosley.

When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...