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- Steve McQueenCapt. Hilts 'The Cooler King'
- James GarnerFlight Lt. Hendley 'The Scrounger'
- Richard AttenboroughSquadron Leader Roger Bartlett 'Big X'
- Charles BronsonFlight Lt. Danny Velinski 'The Tunnel King'
- Donald PleasenceFlight Lt. Colin Blythe 'The Forger'
- James CoburnFlying Officer Louis Sedgwick 'The Manufacturer'
The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war suspense adventure film [2] starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough and featuring James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, David McCallum, Gordon Jackson, John Leyton and Angus Lennie.
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The Great Escape: Directed by John Sturges. With Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald. Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their men to escape from a German camp during World War II.
- (261K)
- Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- John Sturges
- 1963-07-04
- They Built Three Escape Tunnels: ‘Tom,’ ‘Dick’ and ‘Harry’
- Only 76 of The Planned 200 Prisoners Escaped
- Nazis Caught 73 Escapees—And Executed 50
The secret operation was led and organized by Roger Bushell, a Royal Air Force pilot who had been shot down over France while assisting with the evacuation of Dunkirk. In the spring of 1943, Bushell and over 600 prisoners of war began building three tunnels with the code names of Tom, Dick and Harry. The plan called for each tunnel to stretch for m...
The Nazis eventually discovered the tunnel Tom and summoned photographers to chronicle their find before its demolition. While the Nazis celebrated their discovery, however, they were unaware that work on the two other underground passages continued. The prisoners eventually turned Dick into a storage space and focused all construction on Harry, wh...
The audacity and resourcefulness demonstrated by the Allied pilots was the stuff movies are made of, and the breakout was immortalized in the 1963 blockbuster The Great Escape, which starred Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson and James Coburn. There was no Hollywood ending, however, for most of the 76 men who broke o...
Imprisoned during World War II in a German POW camp, a group of Allied soldiers are intent on breaking out, not only to escape, but also to draw Nazi forces away from battle to search...
- (54)
- Steve Mcqueen
- John Sturges
- War, Drama
Apr 26, 2022 · Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/...
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- Amazon MGM Studios
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