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Film · 1963 · War
The Great Escape
Directed by John Sturges
1963
★ 6.8 editorial score
Captivity has never looked like this much fun: Sturges rebuilt a real 1944 breakout from a German camp into tunnel engineering, forged papers and men who refuse to sit still.
“"The Great Escape" is a classic man film about a group of soldiers bonding to escape their prison, and garners an immense cast of acting heavyweights [who] play POWS's imprisoned in a German POW camp. Branded some of the best soldiers in the allied forces, the group of 250 soldiers decide to devise the great escape. The escape that their German rulers will not see coming.”
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