“A hit with the critics and at the box office, The Great Escape is for many the great ‘escape’ film.” The Virgin Film Guide Having featured a strong ensemble cast for his popular western The ...

The film is an account of the bold, meticulous plotting that led to the escape of 76 prisoners from a Nazi detention camp, and subsequent developments that resulted in the demise of 50 ...

The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war suspense adventure film based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name. The film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the mass ...

There's no escaping The Great Escape: A homage to the many brilliant TV, film and sport homages made to classic war film ...

That honour fell to stuntman Bud Ekins. The film tells the story of the ‘Great Escape’ that took place in 1944, with most characters fictionalised versions of the men who took part in the escape in ...

United Artists/Getty Images It is widely considered that Marcel Zillessen inspired James Garner's "the scrounger" character (left) in the 1963 classic film The Great Escape Despite having a key ...

It was the mass escape of Allied soldiers from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III, the story of which was forever immortalised in the 1963 film The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen.

makes several big references to the true events featured in The Great Escape film with Steve McQueen. The US pilots Buck and Bucky reunite at the prisoner of war camp, Stalag Luft III. This is the ...