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 ...

so "The Great Escape" offered him the opportunity to prove himself as a serious performer. While he was great in the film, ...

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

The first half of the movie is played for comedy, as the prisoners mostly outwit their jailers to dig the escape tunnel. The second half is high adventure as they use planes, trains, and boats to ...

But how many know the American icon's role as a daredevil POW in the 1963 World War Two film The Great Escape is supposedly based on a Welshman? Ken Rees, from Anglesey, was the bomber pilot who ...

Part 1 of this two-part made-for-TV movie is a retelling of the original motion picture The Great Escape from 1963, which is based on an event that actually occurred. 200 Allied aircrew members ...

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 ...

Had the piece have been connected to Zillessen’s wartime service and the Great Escape it would be worth much more... the find may surprise us all under the hammer." ...