The Great Escape (1963) is based on Paul Brickhill’s book of the same name. Like the book, the movie also gives us an inside look at the historical event of the German prison mass escape during World ...
Way too flabby at 168 minutes, but once this 1963 feature gets going it’s good, solid stuff, directed with an unusual lack of rhetoric by John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock). Steve McQueen cemented ...
War, as they say, can be hell — but it has certainly inspired some amazing movies! For example, 1963’s The Great Escape, a film based on the true story of a mass escape by Allied prisoners from the ...
Read up on the latest The Great Escape 1963 News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. Here, war is not a bore. "What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally to the epic genre?" ...