The Great Film Review ofThe Great Escape (Definitive Edition)by
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Advantages: Star studded cast, Based on a true story, Funny, And that motorcycle chase which everybody loves Disadvantages: I cant think of one honestly
The Great Escape, written by James Clavell, W.R. Burnett, and Walter Newman (who went uncredited for this film), and directed by John Sturges is a popular 1963 World War II film starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough and James Garner, based on a true story about Allied prisoners of war with a record for escaping from German prisoner-of-war camps. The Luftwaffe placed them in a new more secure camp, Stalag Luft III, from which they promptly formed ...
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Advantages: all-star cast Disadvantages: no special effects
...prisoner of war experience captures the true events that took place in Germany's Stalag Luft III, prisoner-of-war camp;
This cinema achievement provided an entertainingly satirical view of the courage embraced by the British POWs, whom devised a brilliant plan while under German supervision, and resulted in the first of many successful escapes within Germany during WWII.
Steve McQueen/ James Garner/ Richard Attenborough/ Charles Bronson/ James ...
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GREAT ESCAPE
Arguably the best World War II adventure film ever made, John Sturges's dramatisation of
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the true story of a group of British, American, and Canadian POWs who executed a massive escape from Stalag Luft III in Upper Silesia in March 1944, stars Steve Mc...
Production Year: 1962 - War - Director: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance
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