The Great Escape
- Adventure
- Drama
- War
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.
- Directed by
- John Sturges
- Written by
- James Clavell, W.R. Burnett
- Based on
- Paul Brickhill
Cast
- Steve McQueen
James Garner- Richard Attenborough
- James Donald
- Charles Bronson
Donald Pleasence
James Coburn- Hannes Messemer
- David McCallum
- Gordon Jackson
- John Leyton
- Angus Lennie
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- dystopia
- tragedy
- audacious
- based on true story
- prison
- freedom
- prison escape
- 1940s
- world war ii
- prisoner
- soldiers
- escape
- optimism
- nazi
- prison guard
- shower
- motorcycle
- swastika
- prisoner of war
- attempt to escape
- machinegun
- alps mountains
- barbed wire
- claustrophobia
- uniform
- switzerland
- solitary confinement
- british officer
- luftwaffe
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