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The Great Escape (1963)

Directed by John Sturges

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Overview

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.

Rated NR | Length 173 minutes

Actors

Steve McQueen | James Garner | Richard Attenborough | James Donald | Charles Bronson | Donald Pleasence | James Coburn | Hannes Messemer | David McCallum | Gordon Jackson | John Leyton | Angus Lennie | Nigel Stock | Robert Graf | Jud Taylor | Hans Reiser | Harry Riebauer | William Russell | Robert Freitag | Ulrich Beiger | George Mikell | Lawrence Montaigne | Robert Desmond | Til Kiwe | Heinz Weiss | Tom Adams | Karl-Otto Alberty