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Movie Details
Theatrical Release:July 4th, 1963
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On DVD & Blu-ray:March 31st, 1998
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Movie Budget:$4,000,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$11,700,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Walter Mirisch
Production Companies:The Mirisch Company
Movie Tags:nazi,
prisoner,
dystopia,
tragedy,
1940s,
escape,
epic,
baseball,
switzerland,
motorcycle
The Great Escape Collection
The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war suspense adventure film based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name. The film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the mass escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW camp Stalag Luft III during the Second World War. A fictional, made-for-television sequel, The Great Escape II: The Untold Story, was released in 1988. The film is not a true sequel as it dramatizes the escape itself just as the original film does, although mostly using the real names of the individuals involved (whereas the original film fictionalized them and used composite characters). It depicts the search for the culprits responsible for the murder of the 50 Allied officers.
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