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DVD Details
- 24 Minute In-Depth Making-Of Documentary
- Trivia
- Production Notes
- Original Theater Trailer
- Languages: English, French
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 19, 2009
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Steve McQueen & James Garner | |
Performer: | James Coburn, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, David McCallum, Gordon Jackson, John Leyton, Nigel Stock, Jud Taylor & Angus Lennie | |
Directed by | John Sturges | |
Edited by | Ferris Webster | |
Screenwriting by | W.R. Burnett & James Clavell | |
Composition by | Elmer Bernstein | |
Produced by | John Sturges | |
Director of Photography: | Daniel L. Fapp |
Entertainment Reviews:
For all its missteps, when it comes to escapism, intrigue, and indulgence, you could do a whole lot worse than The Great Escape. Just watch it with an open eye.
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Chicago Reader
Worth seeing the last half hour, if nothing else, for one of the best stunt sequences in years: McQueen's motor-cycle bid for freedom.
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Time Out
This is a Boys' Own Tale, and, as boys, we wanted it, cleansed of horrors, for ourselves.
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New Yorker
Rating: 4/5 --
a slow burn which allows you to watch wildly different characters work together and form a team in spite of their differences
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7M Pictures
Way too flabby at 168 minutes, but once this 1963 feature gets going it's good, solid stuff.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3/4 --
Each group of characters get their own riveting planning sequences, all skillfully told. This is one "heist" film where knowing the details of how the escape is supposed to go down before it happens only strengthens the suspense further.
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Scene-Stealers.com
Producer-director John Sturges has fashioned a motion picture that entertains, captivates, thrills and stirs.
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Variety
Description by OLDIES.com:
In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft III, a maximum security prisoner-of-war camp, designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history - brilliantly portrayed here by Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson and James Coburn - who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted.
One of the most ingenious and suspenseful adventure films of all time, The Great Escape is a masterful collaboration between director John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven), screenwriters James Clavel (Shogun) and W.R. Burnett (Little Caesar) and composer Elmer Bernstein. Based on a true story, The Great Escape is epic entertainment that "entertains, captivates, thrills and stirs." (Variety).
Product Description:
John Sturges's dramatization of the true story of a group of British, American, and Canadian POWs who successfully escaped from Stalag Luft III in Upper Silesia in March 1944 is arguably the best World War II adventure film ever made. A host of big-name stars meshes beautifully in this meticulous recreation of the legendary escape. Although this is a film about courage, Sturges wisely takes a low-key approach, leavened with humor, rather than allowing the cast to indulge in macho antics.
The German high command has filtered out all of the allies' most talented escape artists and placed them in a POW camp specifically designed to foil any unwanted departures. But as soon as they arrive, the prisoners, led by Steve McQueen as the rebellious Virgil Hilts, begin work on a series of tunnels under the direction of Roger "Big X" Bartlett (Richard Attenborough). He assigns the POWs to jobs according to their specialties. For more than a year, 600 prisoners, most of whom won't be leaving, work toward an escape that will temporarily disrupt the operations of the German army. THE GREAT ESCAPE, based on the book by Paul Brickhill, featuring many key scenes (McQueen's motorcycle chase, McQueen tossing the baseball against the cell wall, Bronson sliding on his chest in the tunnel) that are simply unforgettable.
The German high command has filtered out all of the allies' most talented escape artists and placed them in a POW camp specifically designed to foil any unwanted departures. But as soon as they arrive, the prisoners, led by Steve McQueen as the rebellious Virgil Hilts, begin work on a series of tunnels under the direction of Roger "Big X" Bartlett (Richard Attenborough). He assigns the POWs to jobs according to their specialties. For more than a year, 600 prisoners, most of whom won't be leaving, work toward an escape that will temporarily disrupt the operations of the German army. THE GREAT ESCAPE, based on the book by Paul Brickhill, featuring many key scenes (McQueen's motorcycle chase, McQueen tossing the baseball against the cell wall, Bronson sliding on his chest in the tunnel) that are simply unforgettable.
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