The Great Escape (1963)

Name: The Great Escape
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Released: 1963-07-03
Duration: 173 min
Cast: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson

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

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.

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Released 1963-07-03 · 173 min · Adventure, Drama, War

Directed by John Sturges

Part of The Great Escape Collection

Cast

Steve McQueen as Hilts 'The Cooler King'
James Garner as Hendley 'The Scrounger'
Richard Attenborough as Bartlett 'Big X'
James Donald as Ramsey 'The SBO'
Charles Bronson as Danny 'Tunnel King'
Donald Pleasence as Blythe 'The Forger'
James Coburn as Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
Hannes Messemer as Von Luger 'The Kommandant'
David McCallum as Ashley-Pitt 'Dispersal'
Gordon Jackson as MacDonald 'Intelligence'
John Leyton as Willie 'Tunnel King'
Angus Lennie as Ives 'The Mole'
Nigel Stock as Cavendish 'The Surveyor'
Robert Graf as Werner 'The Ferret'
Jud Taylor as Goff