Colditz Kilts

[nloken]

Thanks for some great pics! I remember seeing a show about this on Discovery a while ago. Great story!

[ccga3359]

I wonder if anyone wore kilts in the Colditz tv series?

[David Dubh]

I seem to recall that in the tv series there was a very tall Scotsman. He was well over six feet. He did wear the kilt in the series, if I recall correctly he was up to escape but figured he was too obvious due to his height and a few days before the escape attempt he tried scaling the wire of the exercise yard too deadly results. It's been along time since I've seen the series so my memory may not be up to snuff

[Woodsheal]

I seem to recall that in the tv series there was a very tall Scotsman. He was well over six feet. He did wear the kilt in the series, if I recall correctly he was up to escape but figured he was too obvious due to his height and a few days before the escape attempt he tried scaling the wire of the exercise yard too deadly results. It's been along time since I've seen the series so my memory may not be up to snuff

This is the scenario from the '55 movie "Colditz Story." The tall Scotsman "McGill" was played by Sir Christopher Rhodes.
Perhaps they repeated the story line in the later TV series?

[David Dubh]

This is the scenario from the '55 movie "Colditz Story." The tall Scotsman "McGill" was played by Sir Christopher Rhodes.
Perhaps they repeated the story line in the later TV series?

I could be mistaken I might be thinking of the movie not the tv series. It's been much too lng since I've seen either.

[macwilkin]

I seem to recall that in the tv series there was a very tall Scotsman. He was well over six feet. He did wear the kilt in the series, if I recall correctly he was up to escape but figured he was too obvious due to his height and a few days before the escape attempt he tried scaling the wire of the exercise yard too deadly results. It's been along time since I've seen the series so my memory may not be up to snuff

What is it with fictional Scots in WWII prison drams trying to scale the wire in the excercise yards of POW camps? Anyone remember Archibald "Archie" Ives in The Great Escape?

Of course, the scene before his untimely end where he and Gordon Jackson sing "Wha sae the 42nd" after consuming some of the Yanks' "pop-skull" (no smoking!) is great.

T.

[GMan]

Thanks for sharing those great pictures, and the refresher course of history.