The Great Escape is a movie directed by John Sturges in 1963 and based on the book of the same name by Paul Brickhill, first published in 1950. The movie features Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn, James Donald, and others.
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Storyline
In 1943, having expended enormous resources on recapturing escaped Allied POWs, the German armed forces move the most determined to a new, high-security prisoner-of-war camp supervised by Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger. The prisoners’ escape committee mount an audacious plan to tunnel out of the camp and break out 250 men.
Movie vs Book
Year
1963
Minutes
172
Movie Rate
8.20
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Great Escape
Director: John Sturges
Country: USA
Year: 1963
Length: 2h52m
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Year
1950
Pages
304
Book Rate
8.50
S: Goodreads
Book
The Great Escape
Author: Paul Brickhill
Country: Australia
First published in: 1950
Length: 304 pages
Genre: Biography
User polls & recommendations
“Some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.”
ROBIN HOBB (Writer)
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