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The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war adventure film starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough and featuring James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, David McCallum, Gordon Jackson, John Leyton and Angus Lennie. It was filmed in Panavision, and its musical score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. Adapted from Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name, the film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the mass escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW camp Stalag Luft III in World War II. The film made numerous compromises for its commercial appeal, including its portrayal of American involvement in the escape.
- Director
- John Sturges
- Writer
- James Clavell · W. R. Burnett · Walter Newman
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- Release date
- 20 June 1963 · Released
- Runtime
- 165 min
- Country of origin
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Genres
- Drama · Adventure · Thriller · Historical · War
- Also known as
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- Deutsch
- Gesprengte Ketten
- Français
- La Grande Évasion
- Italiano
- La grande fuga
- 日本語
- 大脱走
- 한국어
- 대탈주
- Polski
- Wielka ucieczka
Data from Wikidata (CC0). Description adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): Wikipedia · Poster from fanart.tv.