The Great Escape

feature film, 1963.

DIRECTED BY: John Sturges

The Great Escape

CAST:
Steve McQueen (Hilts),
James Garner (Hendley),
Richard Attenborough (Bartlett),
James Donald (Ramsey),
Charles Bronson (Danny)

SCRIPT:
James Clavell,
W.R. Burnett (prema knjizi Paula Brickhilla)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Daniel L. Fapp

Synopsis:
This is a war film based on real events that took place in WW II when allying soldiers that were captured organized a mass escape from the Nazi concentration camp. A small group of prisoners decides to try out their luck in escaping from a supposedly unbreakable prison camp. One of them suggests his ambitious plan and they start digging three tunnels…

color, 35 mm, 172 min