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The Great Escape
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📅 1963 ⏱ 2h 53min NR Released FHD / 4K

The Great Escape

"Put a fence in front of these men... and they'll climb it!"

AdventureDramaWar

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

🎬 DirectorJohn Sturges
📅 Release1963-07-03
🌍 CountryUnited States of America
🗣 LanguageEnglish, German, French, Russian
🏢 StudioThe Mirisch Company, United Artists
🗳 Votes2,773
🔥 Popularity5
💰 Budget$4,000,000
💵 Revenue$11,700,000
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🎭 Cast

Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen
Hilts 'The Cooler King'
James Garner
James Garner
Hendley 'The Scrounger'
Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough
Bartlett 'Big X'
James Donald
James Donald
Ramsey 'The SBO'
Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson
Danny 'Tunnel King'
Donald Pleasence
Donald Pleasence
Blythe 'The Forger'
James Coburn
James Coburn
Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
Hannes Messemer
Hannes Messemer
Von Luger 'The Kommandant'
David McCallum
David McCallum
Ashley-Pitt 'Dispersal'
Gordon Jackson
Gordon Jackson
MacDonald 'Intelligence'
John Leyton
John Leyton
Willie 'Tunnel King'
Angus Lennie
Angus Lennie
Ives 'The Mole'
Nigel Stock
Nigel Stock
Cavendish 'The Surveyor'
Robert Graf
Robert Graf
Werner 'The Ferret'
Jud Taylor
Jud Taylor
Goff

🎥 Crew

DirectorJohn Sturges
ScreenplayJames Clavell
ProducerJohn Sturges
Original Music ComposerElmer Bernstein
ScreenplayW.R. Burnett
EditorFerris Webster
Art DirectionFernando Carrere
ProducerJames Clavell
NovelPaul Brickhill
Director of PhotographyDaniel L. Fapp

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💬 Reviews

John Chard⭐ 10/10

Not just great, simply magnificent more like! "Wait a minute, you aren't seriously suggesting that if I get thru the wire and case everything out there, and don't get picked up, to turn myself in and get thrown in the cooler for a couple of months so you can get the information you need" Smart, witty and directed with adroit hands by John Sturges, The Great Escape is standing the test of tim…

GenerationofSwine⭐ 10/10

I can't watch this any more. It's a fun movie, one that my dad made me watch as a kid. One that I loved... .... and then Eddie Izzard killed it for me. Now whenever I try to watch it all I do is think about his stand-up bit. I think it was from his "Dressed to Kill," maybe "Circle," but whichever it was, that is how you know you're hysterical, when you forever utterly ruin a classic movie becau…

CinemaSerf⭐ 8/10

Got to be the definition of an all star (albeit all male) cast in this gripping demonstration of just how inventive and ingenious people can be when incarcerated and facing a bleak (if any) future. Each character in this WWII POW drama brings something different to this ensemble of style and imagination. Richard Attenborough stars as the proverbial pain in the ass to his Nazi guards having repeate…

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