Movie List
The Great Escape
The Mirissch Company (1963)
Action, Adventure, War
172 mins
NR (Not Rated)
Steve McQueenHilts ‘The Cooler King’
James GarnerHendley ‘The Scrounger’
Richard AttenboroughBartlett ‘Big X’
James DonaldRamsey ‘The SBO’
Charles BronsonDanny ‘Tunnel King’
Donald PleasenceBlythe ‘The Forger’
James CoburnSedgwick ‘Manufacturer’
Hannes MessemerVon Luger ‘The Kommandant’
David McCallumAshley-Pitt ‘Dispersal’
Gordon JacksonMacDonald ‘Intelligence’
John LeytonWillie ‘Tunnel King’
Angus LennieIves ‘The Mole’
Nigel StockCavendish ‘The Surveyor’
Robert GrafWerner ‘The Ferret’
Jud TaylorGoff
Director John Sturges
Producer James Clavell
Walter Mirisch
Writer Paul Brickhill
James Clavell
Cinematography Daniel L. Fapp
Musician Elmer Bernstei
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.