The Great Escape (1963)

Name: The Great Escape
Released: 1963
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson

• Movies, Adventure, Drama, War

• 173 min

7.9

Put a fence in front of these men... and they'll climb it!

Directed by: John Sturges
Casting: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, David McCallum, Gordon Jackson, John Leyton, Angus Lennie, Nigel Stock, Robert Graf, Jud Taylor, Hans Reiser, Harry Riebauer, William Russell, Robert Freitag, Ulrich Beiger, George Mikell, Lawrence Montaigne, Robert Desmond, Til Kiwe, Heinz Weiss, Tom Adams, Karl-Otto Alberty
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1963-07-03
Status: Released

Tags: prison, epic, uniform, swastika, prisoner, based on novel or book, nazi, escape, optimism, freedom, machinegun, switzerland, shower, dystopia, baseball, world war ii, prisoner of war, claustrophobia, attempt to escape, barbed wire, based on true story, prison guard, prison escape, tragedy, solitary confinement, motorcycle, alps mountains, british officer, 1940s, luftwaffe, soldiers

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate 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.