Great Escape, The Poster

Great Escape, The (1963)

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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, relocates 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.

Principal Cast

Steve McQueen as Captain Hilts
James Garner as Flight Lt. Hendley
Richard Attenborough as Roger Bartlett
James Donald as Group Capt. Ramsey "The SBO"
Charles Bronson as Flight Lt. Danny Velinski
Donald Pleasence as Flight Lt. Colin Blythe "The Forger"
James Coburn as Flying Officer Louis Sedgwick "The Manufacturer"
Hannes Messemer as Kommandant von Luger
David McCallum as Lt. Cmdr. Eric Ashley-Pitt "Dispersal"
Gordon Jackson as Flight Lt. Sandy MacDonald "Intelligence"
John Leyton as Flight Lt. William Dickes "The Tunneler"
Angus Lennie as Flying Officer Archibald Ives "The Mole"
Nigel Stock as Flight Lt. Denys Cavendish "The Surveyor"
Robert Graf as Werner The Ferret
Jud Taylor as Goff
Hans Reiser as Herr Kuhn
Harry Riebauer as Stratwitch
Robert Freitag as Capt. Posen
Ulrich Beiger as Preissen
George Mikell as Lt. Dietrich
Lawrence Montaigne as Haynes (Diversions)
Robert Desmond as Griffith Tailor
Til Kiwe as Frick
Heinz Weiss as Kramer
Tom Adams as Dai Nimmo (Diversions)
Karl-Otto Alberty as S.S. Officer Steinach

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