The Great Escape (1963)

Put a fence in front of these men... and they'll climb it!

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.

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	Steve McQueen	As: Hilts 'The Cooler King'
	James Garner	As: Hendley 'The Scrounger'
	Richard Attenborough	As: Bartlett 'Big X'
	James Donald	As: Ramsey 'The SBO'
	Charles Bronson	As: Danny 'Tunnel King'

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Tagline:	Put a fence in front of these men... and they'll climb it!
Certification:	12

Details

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War

Language: English, Deutsch, Français, Pусский

Release Date: 03 July 1963

Country: US

Runtime: 173m

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Company: The Mirisch Company

Budget: $4,000,000

Revenue: $11,700,000

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Cast

	Steve McQueen	Hilts 'The Cooler King'
	James Garner	Hendley 'The Scrounger'
	Richard Attenborough	Bartlett 'Big X'
	James Donald	Ramsey 'The SBO'
	Charles Bronson	Danny 'Tunnel King'
	Donald Pleasence	Blythe 'The Forger'
	James Coburn	Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
	Hannes Messemer	Von Luger 'The Kommandant'
	David McCallum	Ashley-Pitt 'Dispersal'
	Gordon Jackson	MacDonald 'Intelligence'
	John Leyton	Willie 'Tunnel King'
	Angus Lennie	Ives 'The Mole'
	Nigel Stock	Cavendish 'The Surveyor'
	Robert Graf	Werner 'The Ferret'
	Jud Taylor	Goff
	Hans Reiser	Herr Kuhn
	Harry Riebauer	Stratwitch
	William Russell	Sorren
	Robert Freitag	Capt. Posen
	Ulrich Beiger	Preissen
	George Mikell	Lt. Dietrich
	Lawrence Montaigne	Haynes ('Diversions')
	Robert Desmond	Griffith 'Tailor'
	Til Kiwe	Frick
	Heinz Weiss	Kramer
	Tom Adams	Dai Nimmo ('Diversions')
	Karl-Otto Alberty	S.S. Officer Steinach