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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Desmond Plunkett was one of the inspirations for Donald Pleasence's character, Colin Bythe (second left), in the film The Great ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imprisoned during World War II in a German POW camp, a group of Allied soldiers are intent on breaking out, not only to escape, but also to draw Nazi forces away from battle to search for fugitives.