The Great Escape | reviewed by: William O'Donnell | May 24, 2013
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Sometimes fun, sometimes jarring. A wonderful adventure throughout. An unbeatable cast of leading men.
| genre | Drama | History | War |
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| synopsis | The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocates them to a high-security |
| lead actors | Steve McQueen | James Garner | Richard Attenborough | James Donald | Charles Bronson | Donald Pleasence | James Coburn | Hannes Messemer | David McCallum | Gordon Jackson | John Leyton | Angus Lennie | Nigel Stock | Robert Graf | Jud Taylor | Hans Reiser | Harry Riebauer | William Russell | Robert Freitag | Ulrich Beiger | George Mikell | Lawrence Montaigne | Robert Desmond | Til Kiwe | Heinz Weiss | Tom Adams | Karl-Otto Alberty |
| director | John Sturges |