The Great Escape

Plot summary

Based on a true story, a group of allied escape artist type prisoners of war are all put in an 'escape proof' camp. Their leader decides to try to take out several hundred all at once. The first half of the film is played for comedy as the prisoners mostly outwit their jailers to dig the escape tunnel. The second half is high adventure as they use boats and trains and planes to get out of occupied Europe. Written by John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}

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 "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. Written by Kevin Ackley {kackley1@aol.com}

Based on a true story, "The Great Escape" deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries. Written by Anthony Hughes {husnock31@hotmail.com}

Cast

	Steve McQueen	...	Capt. Hilts "The Cooler King"
	James Garner	...	Flight Lt. Hendley "The Scrounger"
	Richard Attenborough	...	Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett "Big X"
	James Donald	...	Group Capt. Ramsey "The SBO"
	Charles Bronson	...	Flight Lt. Danny Velinski "The Tunnel King"
	Donald Pleasence	...	Flight Lt. Colin Blythe "The Forger"
	James Coburn	...	Flying Officer Louis Sedgwick "The Manufacturer"
	Hannes Messemer	...	Col. von Luger
	David McCallum	...	Lt. Cmdr. Eric Ashley-Pitt "Dispersal"
	Gordon Jackson	...	Flight Lt. Sandy MacDonald "Intelligence"
	John Leyton	...	Flight Lt. William Dickes "The Tunneler"
	Angus Lennie	...	Flying Officer Archibald Ives "The Mole"
	Nigel Stock	...	Flight Lt. Denys Cavendish "The Surveyor"
	Robert Graf	...	Werner 'The Ferret'
	Jud Taylor	...	Goff