The Great Escape (1963)

Nutzer-Bewertung:

8.4/10   

Regisseur:

John Sturges

Drehbuchautoren:

Paul Brickhill (book)
James Clavell (screenplay) ...

Premierendatum:

4. Juli 1963 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Abenteuer | Drama | Geschichte | Thriller | Krieg

Werbezeile:

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

Plot:

Several hundred Allied POWs plan a mass escape from a German POW camp.

Plot Keywords:

Pow Escape | Airplane Theft | Sidecar | Devotion | Swastika

Auszeichnungen:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Absolutely Awesome!!!

US TV Schedule:

Sat. Oct. 18	8:00 PM	TCM
Sat. Oct. 18	9:00 PM	PBS
Sun. Oct. 19	1:30 AM	PBS

Besetzung

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

Alternativ:

Gesprengte Ketten (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

172 Min

Land:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch | Deutsch | Französisch | Russisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System)

Altersfreigabe:

Iceland:12 | Canada:PG (Ontario) | USA:Approved (PCA #20399) | USA:Unrated (video release) | West Germany:12 (f) | South Korea:12 | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:PG | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Portugal:M/12 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG

Drehorte:

Bavaria Filmstudios, Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany

Firma:

Mirisch Corporation, The

Dies und das:

James Garner developed his "Scrounger" character from his own personal experiences in the military during the Korean War.

Pannen:

Faktische Fehler: The word 'lieutenent' is spoken using the American pronunciation throughout the movie by British and German officers. The British pronunciation would have been used.

Dialogzitate:

Steinach: Herr Bartlett-!
[Bartlett turns around and says something in German]
Steinach: Your German is good. And I hear, also, your French. Your arms...
[pulls a gun]
Steinach: UP!
[Bartlett surrenders]

Querbezüge:

Bezug enthalten in Back to Gaya (2004)

Absolutely Awesome!!!

The Great Escape is a classic war movie with plenty happening in it. It just so happens that it is my all time favourite having seen it 60 times since it first was released. Steve McQueen , as Hilts, was the driving force behind this movie. He seemed to tie everything together between the American and British prisoners especially in the scene where they were celebrating the 4th of July with the drums and good ole fashioned American moonshine. The Great Escape contains one of the most famous movie scenes of all times when McQueen has half of the German army chasing after him while riding his motorcycle trying to jump the barb wire fence to get to Switzerland. All in all, The Great Escape had a cast of actors that was so strong that it was a wonder they got this movie made in the first place with all of the egos involved. James Garner, Charles Bronson, Angus Lennie, James Coburn, etc.were absolutely awesome.