The Great Escape II: The Untold Story Synopsis & Summary
Synopsis
Originally shown on television in two parts, the second of which takes place after WWII. Surviving escapee Major John Dodge (Christopher Reeve) is sent back to Germany by Winston Churchill to capture the Gestapo officer who ordered the machine-gunning of 50 of the captured escapees, in direct defiance of the Geneva convention. Donald Pleasance, one of the "good guys" in the original, plays the Nazi villain in the new version. Filmed in Yugoslavia, Great Escape II: The Untold Story was originally telecast November 6 and 7, 1988. - Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Movie Info
Run Time:
93 min.
Production Co.:
Vidmark Entertainment
Director(s):
Genre(s):
Action, Drama, War
Keywords:
America, Britain, Germany, MIA (Missing in Action), Nazism, POW (Prisoner of War), POW/MIA, atrocity, bad-guy, captive, captor, concentration-camp, escape, execution, good-guy, officer, prison, reunion, revenge, survivor, tunnel, war
Setting:
POW camp,concentration camp,prison,war
Time Period:
World War II
Status:
