The Great Escape

England

173 min

1963

Steve McQueen Jud Taylor Hans Reiser Harry Riebauer William Russell Robert Freitag Ulrich Beiger Lawrence Montaigne Robert Desmond Til Kiwe Heinz Weiss Robert Graf Nigel Stock Angus Lennie James Garner Richard Attenborough James Donald Charles Bronson Donald Pleasence James Coburn Hannes Messemer David McCallum Gordon Jackson John Leyton Tom Adams

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.