B00A2J9UDM

027616668028

1963

1963-07-04

172

2h 52min

Top rated movie #150 , Nominated for 1 Oscar, 3 wins & 11 nominations total

John Sturges

Paul Brickhill, James Clavell, W.R. Burnett

Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough

James Clavell, Walter Mirisch, John Sturges

Elmer Bernstein

Daniel L. Fapp

Ferris Webster

Fernando Carrere

Kurt Ripberger

Emile LaVigne, Jay Sebring

Allen K. Wood, Hubert Fröhlich

Jack N. Reddish, John Flynn, Robert E. Relyea

Frank Agnone, Frank McCarthy

Wayne Fury

A. Paul Pollard

Bud Ekins, Tim Gibbes, Chuck Hayward, Loren Janes, Roy Jenson, Carey Loftin, Robert E. Relyea, Roy Scammell, Roy N. Sickner

Lothar Winkler

Bert Henrikson

Don Tomlinson

Richard Carruth, Michael Andersen, Lloyd Basham, Saundra Berkova, Elmer Bernstein, Harold Brown, Herman Clebanoff, Manuel Compinsky, Dominick Fera, Dominic Fidelibus, Wolfgang Fraenkel, Sam Freed Jr., Benny Gill, Jack Hayes, Wally Heglin, Robert Helfer, Norman Herzburg, Milt Holland, Anatol Kaminsky, Armand Kaproff, Nathan Kaproff, Pearl Kaufman, Milton Kestenbaum, Manny Klein, Raphael Kramer, Abe Luboff, Mitchell Lurie, Edgar Lustgarten, Roman Maciejewski, Virginia Majewski, Shelly Manne, Jack Marsh, G.R. Menhennick, Peter Mercurio, Erno Neufeld, John Neufeld, Richard Perissi, Lee Perrin, Uan Rasey, Dorothy Remsen, Sam Rice, Gale Robinson, Meyer Rubin, Martin Ruderman, Sylvia Ruderman, Ambrose Russo, Eudice Shapiro, Leo Shuken, Lou Singer, Eleanor Slatkin, Felix Slatkin, Raymond Turner, Lloyd Ulyate, Paul Van Loan, Vinton Vernon, Seymour Zeldin

John Franco

Robert E. Relyea, Wally Floody, Howard Vernon

Adventure, Drama, History

The Mirisch Company, Alpha

USA

English, German, French, Russian, Spanish

Approved

8.2

243722

86

The Great Escape is a 1963 American war film, with elements of adventure and suspense, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough and featuring James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, David McCallum, Karl-Otto Alberty, Gordon Jackson, John Leyton and Angus Lennie. It was filmed in Panavision.

The film is based on Paul Brickhill s 1950 non-fiction book of the same name, a firsthand account of the mass escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW camp Stalag Luft III in Sagan (now Żagań, Poland), in the Nazi Germany province of Lower Silesia. The film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the escape, with numerous compromises for its commercial appeal, such as focusing more on American involvement in the escape.

The Great Escape was made by The Mirisch Company, released by United Artists, and produced and directed by John Sturges. The film had its Royal World Premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square in London s West End on 20 June 1963. The Great Escape emerged as one of the highest-grossing films of the year, winning McQueen the award for Best Actor at the Moscow International Film Festival, and is now considered a classic. The Great Escape is also noted for its motorcycle chase and jump scene, which is considered one of the best stunts ever performed.

$4,000,000 (estimated)

$228,178

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