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Post by ScreenHead One on Jan 25, 2024 12:55:03 GMT -6
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Post by ScreenHead One on Jan 25, 2024 13:09:50 GMT -6
* The Great Escape (1963)
8.2 Rating 172 min Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. 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.
Country: United States Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, Action, War Release: Jul 04, 1963
Based on: The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
Director: John Sturges Production: The Mirisch Company, Alpha, United Artists Cast: Steve McQueen as Captain Virgil Hilts ('The Cooler King') James Garner as Flight Lieutenant Bob Hendley ('The Scrounger') Richard Attenborough as Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett ('Big X') James Donald as Group Captain Ramsey ('The SBO') Charles Bronson as Flight Lieutenant Danny Welinski ('Tunnel King') Donald Pleasence as Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe ('The Forger') James Coburn as Flying Officer Sedgwick ('The Manufacturer') Hannes Messemer as Oberst von Luger ('The Kommandant') David McCallum as Lieutenant-Commander Eric Ashley-Pitt ('Dispersal') Gordon Jackson as Flight Lieutenant Alexander MacDonald ('Intelligence') John Leyton as Flight Lieutenant Willie Dickes ('Tunnel King') Angus Lennie as Flying Officer Archie Ives ('The Mole') Nigel Stock as Flight Lieutenant Dennis Cavendish ('The Surveyor') Robert Graf as Werner ('The Ferret') Jud Taylor as Second Lieutenant Goff Hans Reiser as Kuhn Harry Riebauer as Stabsfeldwebel Strachwitz William Russell as Sorren ('Security') Robert Freitag as Hauptmann Posen Ulrich Beiger as Preissen George Mikell as SD Hauptsturmführer Dietrich Lawrence Montaigne as Haynes ('Diversions') Robert Desmond as Griffith ('Tailor') Til Kiwe as Frick Heinz Weiss as Kramer Tom Adams as Dai Nimmo ('Diversions') Karl-Otto Alberty as SD Untersturmführer Steinach
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Post by ScreenHead One on Jan 25, 2024 13:20:13 GMT -6
* The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988)
5.5 Rating 178 min A former POW leads a special task force to hunt down the culprits responsible for carrying out the orders to murder 50 of the 76 escapees from Stalag Luft III. The Great Escape II is not a true sequel, as it dramatizes the escape itself, like the original film, but mostly by using the real names of the individuals involved; the original film fictionalized them and used composite characters. The murder of the prisoners is more accurate than in the 1963 original, with the POWs being shot individually or in pairs, but other portions of the film are fictional. It depicts the search for those responsible for the murder of the Allied officers and the subsequent trials. The film features the exploits of Major Johnnie Dodge, an American-born British Army officer and cousin of Winston Churchill, and largely follows his journey to freedom after the escape. The second half of the film is based on the postwar investigation into the murders of fifty of the escapees by the Gestapo, conducted by Dodge and two fictional Americans (whereas in fact it was conducted by the Royal Air Force Special Investigation Branch).
Country: United States Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action Released: Nov 6, 1988 Director: Paul Wendkos, Jud Taylor Production: Michael Jaffe Films, NBC Cast: Christopher Reeve as Major John Dodge Judd Hirsch as Captain David Matthews Anthony Denison as Lieutenant Mike Corey Ian McShane as Squadron Leader Roger Bushell Charles Haid as Sergeant MacKenzie Donald Pleasence as Dr. Absalon Michael Nader as Burchardt Mijou Kovacs as Marie-Chantal Dubers Derek de Lint as Dr. Thost Andrew Bicknell as Wings Day Karlheinz Lemken as Herr Schmidt Ron Donachie as Al Hake Peter Dennis as Group Captain Herbert Massey Geoffrey Beevers as Jim Kitteridge Christopher Neame as Kiowski Dominic Gould as Jules Brian Pettifer as Thomas Kirby-Green Ian Redford as Willie Bill Wallis as Schatz Ludwig Haas as Adolf Hitler Ronald Lacey as Winston Churchill Klaus Grünberg as Erich Zacharias Vladan Živković as Pankrac Prison Warden
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