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The Great Escape (1963)

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Country: US
Technical: col/scope 173m
Director: John Sturges
Cast: James Garner, Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, James Donald

Synopsis:

Allied POWs plan and dig three tunnels with a view to putting out an unprecedented number of escapees, thus applying pressure on enemy resources behind the lines.

Review:

Like its companion piece, "The Magnificent Seven", this long film reduces itself to a series of just-so episodes, often sentimental, and the escape itself is unconvincingly handled. However, it remains in many ways the apotheosis of a genre, and works up a head of steam in its climax. Intricately crafted and looking and sounding great throughout its length, it has become everyone's favourite Christmas film by virtue of a single inspired bid for freedom on a motorcycle.

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Country: US
Technical: col/scope 173m
Director: John Sturges
Cast: James Garner, Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, James Donald

Synopsis:

Allied POWs plan and dig three tunnels with a view to putting out an unprecedented number of escapees, thus applying pressure on enemy resources behind the lines.

Review:

Like its companion piece, "The Magnificent Seven", this long film reduces itself to a series of just-so episodes, often sentimental, and the escape itself is unconvincingly handled. However, it remains in many ways the apotheosis of a genre, and works up a head of steam in its climax. Intricately crafted and looking and sounding great throughout its length, it has become everyone's favourite Christmas film by virtue of a single inspired bid for freedom on a motorcycle.


Country: US
Technical: col/scope 173m
Director: John Sturges
Cast: James Garner, Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, James Donald

Synopsis:

Allied POWs plan and dig three tunnels with a view to putting out an unprecedented number of escapees, thus applying pressure on enemy resources behind the lines.

Review:

Like its companion piece, "The Magnificent Seven", this long film reduces itself to a series of just-so episodes, often sentimental, and the escape itself is unconvincingly handled. However, it remains in many ways the apotheosis of a genre, and works up a head of steam in its climax. Intricately crafted and looking and sounding great throughout its length, it has become everyone's favourite Christmas film by virtue of a single inspired bid for freedom on a motorcycle.

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