MOVIE ADAPTATION FOR
DO THE BIRDS STILL SING IN HELL? INCREDIBLE WW2 STORY
Monarch Media and Jayson Rothwell will turn Horace Greasley's biography DO THE BIRDS STILL SING IN HELL? novel into a movie musical. This incredibly moving love story will be a biopic on cocky
British WWII soldier Horace Jim Greasley who has sacrificed himself over 200 times by escaping from a German POW camp to both be with the woman he loved –the camp Commander’s personal translator– and to return to camp with food and supplies for fellow prisoners in order to keep them alive.
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| Some historians have tried to debunk the story |
Horace was 20 years old in the spring of 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded
Czechoslovakia and Poland. After seven weeks of training, he found
himself facing the might of the German army in a muddy field in Northern
France, with just 30 rounds of ammunition in his weapon pouch. Horace's
war didn't last long. He was taken prisoner on May 25th, 1940 andforced to endure a 10 week march across France and Belgium en route to
Holland. Horace survived, barely, but many of his comrades were not so
fortunate. Falling by the side of the road through exhaustion and
malnourishment meant a bullet through the back of the head and the
corpse left to rot. After a three day train journey without food and
water, Horace found himself incarcerated in a prison camp in Poland. It
was there he embarked on an incredible love affair with a German girl
interpreting for his captors. He experienced the sweet taste of freedom
each time he escaped to see her, yet incredibly he made his way back
into the camp each time - sometimes two or three times a week. He broke
out of the camp more than 200 times, often bringing food back to his
fellow prisoners to supplement their meagre rations, and toward the end
of the war even managed to bring radio parts back in, allowing the BBC
news to be delivered daily to more than 3,000 prisoners.
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| Jayson Rothwell has penned the script |
